Nature

Reliability-based load and resistance factor design model for energy piles

Geothermal energy, as one of the renewable energies, is rich in China. To improve the energy utilization structure and protect the environment, the utilization of the geothermal energy has been ...
Nature

Numerical analysis of pile group, piled raft, and footing using finite element software PLAXIS 2D and GEO5

Foundation plays a vital role in weight transfer from the superstructure to substructure. However, foundation characteristics such as pile group, piled raft, and footing remain unfolded due to their ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Design Guidelines for Increasing the Lateral Resistance of Highway-Bridge Pile Foundations by Improving Weak Soils

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Medicine Buffalo

Bridge Foundations: Modeling Large Pile Groups and Caissons for Seismic Design

Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...
POWER Magazine

Plant Design: Trends in Coal Pile Design

An optimal coal pile design takes into account the site-specific (and often conflicting) needs of a new power plant early in its design — rather than using whatever land is available after the plant ...