Date
11 May 1984, 8:00 am - 10:30 am
Abstract
This paper describes four design and construction cases that were identified, investigated and solved at the site of a major industrial project located in Central Alberta, Canada. These consisted of cases where: (i) high artesian water pressures were encountered in a stratum that was planned to be excavated during cut and fill operations for a railway yard area, (ii) an embankment was to be built over an area that became waterlogged due to over excavation, (iii) a year round drainage system was to be provided below a railway embankment where an icing (pingo shaped) problem was encountered in winter, and (iv) bored, belled, cast-in-place concrete pile design had to be revised due to the existence of artesian pressures in layered and fractured bedrock stratum where pile bases were to be founded.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1984 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Sharma, Hari D.; Sengupta, S.; and Harron, Glen, "Design and Construction of a Railway Yard, Embankment and Foundations under Difficult Groundwater Conditions" (1984). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 10.
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Design and Construction of a Railway Yard, Embankment and Foundations under Difficult Groundwater Conditions
This paper describes four design and construction cases that were identified, investigated and solved at the site of a major industrial project located in Central Alberta, Canada. These consisted of cases where: (i) high artesian water pressures were encountered in a stratum that was planned to be excavated during cut and fill operations for a railway yard area, (ii) an embankment was to be built over an area that became waterlogged due to over excavation, (iii) a year round drainage system was to be provided below a railway embankment where an icing (pingo shaped) problem was encountered in winter, and (iv) bored, belled, cast-in-place concrete pile design had to be revised due to the existence of artesian pressures in layered and fractured bedrock stratum where pile bases were to be founded.
