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An Embankment Design over Dynamically Compacted Fill and Soft Lake Plain Clay
Design and construction of highway and railroad embankments across the Chicago/Calumet Lacustrine Plain must often tackle challenges related to excessive total and differential settlements due to the presence of compressible clays and/or uncontrolled fill. Engineering works related to the extension of the Gary-Chicago International Airport runways required relocation of a rail line and construction of an embankment section over a former sand pit dug out through Holocene-age beach deposits in the early 1900s. By 1990s the 6.6-acre site included about 275,000 cubic meters of solid waste—foundry sand, incinerator ash, slag, and auto and demolition debris—indiscriminately placed below and above the water table without compaction control. The uncontrolled fill material was dynamically compacted to meet strict settlement tolerances. The design characteristics and performance verification of the ground improvement are presented in this paper.
An Embankment Design over Dynamically Compacted Fill and Soft Lake Plain Clay
Design and construction of highway and railroad embankments across the Chicago/Calumet Lacustrine Plain must often tackle challenges related to excessive total and differential settlements due to the presence of compressible clays and/or uncontrolled fill. Engineering works related to the extension of the Gary-Chicago International Airport runways required relocation of a rail line and construction of an embankment section over a former sand pit dug out through Holocene-age beach deposits in the early 1900s. By 1990s the 6.6-acre site included about 275,000 cubic meters of solid waste—foundry sand, incinerator ash, slag, and auto and demolition debris—indiscriminately placed below and above the water table without compaction control. The uncontrolled fill material was dynamically compacted to meet strict settlement tolerances. The design characteristics and performance verification of the ground improvement are presented in this paper.
An Embankment Design over Dynamically Compacted Fill and Soft Lake Plain Clay
Snider, Mickey L. (author) / Farez, Corina T. (author)
Geo-Chicago 2016 ; 2016 ; Chicago, Illinois
Geo-Chicago 2016 ; 648-657
2016-08-08
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
An Embankment Design over Dynamically Compacted Fill and Soft Lake Plain Clay
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