Date
07 May 1984, 11:30 am - 6:00 pm
Abstract
An unusual case history of a condominium apartment building, originally designed for eleven storeys, to which four additional floors were added after the footings had already been constructed and was successfully completed to fifteen storeys in height . The use of rather high soil-bearing values, from 7 ksf ( 350 kPa) in the original design to over 12 ksf ( 600 kPa) . The project site , underlain by erratic soil profiles containing layers of soft fine-grained soils to about 20 ft (6 m) below the surface, had been effectively improved with an intense application of the Dynamic Precompression Treatment (OPT) . A historical background of the OPT and extensive general and specific details of the implementation of this technique are presented together with selection of design parameters, results of conventional in-situ testing and non-conventional stress-strain tests for determination of soil compressibility moduli. Stress settlement analyses and settlement records are also provided.
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
Leon, F. J., "Dynamic Precompression Treatment - A Case History" (1984). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 13.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/1icchge/1icchge-theme1/13
Dynamic Precompression Treatment - A Case History
An unusual case history of a condominium apartment building, originally designed for eleven storeys, to which four additional floors were added after the footings had already been constructed and was successfully completed to fifteen storeys in height . The use of rather high soil-bearing values, from 7 ksf ( 350 kPa) in the original design to over 12 ksf ( 600 kPa) . The project site , underlain by erratic soil profiles containing layers of soft fine-grained soils to about 20 ft (6 m) below the surface, had been effectively improved with an intense application of the Dynamic Precompression Treatment (OPT) . A historical background of the OPT and extensive general and specific details of the implementation of this technique are presented together with selection of design parameters, results of conventional in-situ testing and non-conventional stress-strain tests for determination of soil compressibility moduli. Stress settlement analyses and settlement records are also provided.
