The interaction between ocean environment and pile structure is so complex that despite considerable laboratory as well as prototype studies estimation of scour depth and its geometry in a generalized and accurate form are still difficult to make. One of the reasons underlying this uncertainty could be the limitation of the statistical curve fitting technique, commonly employed to analyse the c...

The study about the jacket platforms in the past has revealed that the most of the collapse failures occur due to the lack of strength of the pile foundation. However, when the jacket platforms which have been collapsed due to extreme condition were looked into, it was found that most of them had their foundations intact. These contrasting facts can be explained with the help of the phenomenon ...

In the recent years, non-connected piled raft foundation has been considered as an economical and practical deep foundation in the situation that high shear and concentrated loads may occur at the connection of the raft and pile head. This paper was presented an experimental study of a square foundation on the effects of parameters such as S/D, L/D and etc. in two cases of connected or non-conn...

a simplified approach for nonlinear analysis of the load-displacement response of a single pile and a pile group is presented using the load-transfer approach. a hyperbolic model is used to capture the relationship between unit skin friction and pile-soil relative displacement developed at the pile-soil interface and the load-displacement relationship developed at the pile end. as to the nonlin...

Over the past decade, intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) to facilitate precise resection of brain tumors has been introduced to the field of brain tumor surgery. We have started using a technique for brain tumor resection involving precise placement of silicone tubes filled with bone wax under iMRI, which we call the “wax pile” method. From July 2008 to August 2012, a total of 31 ...

High-speed railways are built in deep soft-soil foundations interlayered with hard materials. However, the layers cannot be penetrated by conventional foundation treatment. Moreover, project cost is sometimes prohibitive, which an issue for post-construction subsidence control. The bag grouting pile a special grouting-pile-reinforcement technique treating This paper conducted tests on Ningbo-Ta...