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Reliability-Based Design And Acceptance Protocol For Driven Piles, Joseph Jabo
Reliability-Based Design And Acceptance Protocol For Driven Piles, Joseph Jabo
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The current use of the Arkansas Standard Specifications for Highway Construction Manuals (2003, 2014) for driven pile foundations faces various limitations which result in designs of questionable reliability. These specifications are based on the Allowable Stress Design method (ASD), cover a wide range of uncertainties, do not take into account pile and soil types, and were developed for general use. To overcome these challenges it is deemed necessary to develop a new design and acceptance protocol for driven piles. This new protocol incorporates locally calibrated RLFD resistance factors for accounting for local design and construction experiences and practices, as well …
Field-Obtained Soil Water Characteristic Curves And Hydraulic Conductivity Functions, Elvis Ishimwe
Field-Obtained Soil Water Characteristic Curves And Hydraulic Conductivity Functions, Elvis Ishimwe
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A compacted clay liner (test pad) was constructed and instrumented with volumetric water content and soil matric potential sensors to determine soil water characteristic curves (SWCC) and hydraulic conductivity (k) functions. Specifically, the compacted clay liner was subjected to an infiltration cycle during a sealed double ring infiltrometer (SDRI) test followed by a drying cycle. After the drying cycle, Shelby tube samples were collected from the compacted clay liner and flexible wall permeability (FWP) tests were conducted on sub-samples to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity. Moreover, two computer programs (RETC and UNSAT-H) were utilized to model the SWCCs and k-functions …