Alternative Title
Paper No. 7.24
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
10 Mar 1998, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Abstract
The Puerto de Santa Maria and Puerto Real news highways are 17.4 kms. long, of which about 9 kms. run through a marshland area. The soft soil surveys involved piezocone reconnaissances and the construction of 3 experimental embankments. The embankments rest on ground improved with vertical drains for heights between 2.5 and 4.0 m., and with gravel columns for heights between 4.0 and 9.0 m. Expanded polystyrene was also used, for the first time in Spain, as a light fill in the embankments providing access to one of the bridges. The foundations for the 9 bridges located in the marshland were large diameter, precast, driven pier-piles (Raymond type). Embankment settlement was monitored and controlled by continuous settlement measuring lines. Pile driving was also PDA controlled.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 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
Oteo, Carlos S.; Delgado, José M.; Burbano, Germán; and Sopeña, Luis M., "Soil and Site Improvements of the Marsh Soils in Puerto De Santa María Highway (Cádiz, Spain)" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 17.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session07/17
Soil and Site Improvements of the Marsh Soils in Puerto De Santa María Highway (Cádiz, Spain)
St. Louis, Missouri
The Puerto de Santa Maria and Puerto Real news highways are 17.4 kms. long, of which about 9 kms. run through a marshland area. The soft soil surveys involved piezocone reconnaissances and the construction of 3 experimental embankments. The embankments rest on ground improved with vertical drains for heights between 2.5 and 4.0 m., and with gravel columns for heights between 4.0 and 9.0 m. Expanded polystyrene was also used, for the first time in Spain, as a light fill in the embankments providing access to one of the bridges. The foundations for the 9 bridges located in the marshland were large diameter, precast, driven pier-piles (Raymond type). Embankment settlement was monitored and controlled by continuous settlement measuring lines. Pile driving was also PDA controlled.
