Location
New York, New York
Date
14 Apr 2004, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Abstract
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most heavily traveled bridges in the world. The east span of the bridge will be replaced due to seismic safety concerns. The new bridge will be founded mostly on large 1.8 to 2.5-meter diameter, approximately 60- to 100-meter long pile foundations. American Petroleum Institute (API) method was used for pile design, since the selected foundation type is similar to those used for offshore oil platforms and the subsurface conditions are in many ways similar to those in the Gulf of Mexico. Piles foundations will experience tension loads of up to approximately 90 MN and compression loads of up to approximately 140 MN during the design earthquake. Prior to Production pile driving, a cofferdam will be constructed at each pier location, the pilecap footing box will be placed inside and the piles will be driven through the footing box with the use of a 500 to 1700 kilojoule Menck MHU-500 and MHU-1700 hydraulic impact hammer. Based on the Pile Installation Demonstration Project that was conducted in the fall of 2000, a soil-pile setup with time and acceptance criteria was established to accept the production piles.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 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
Mohan, S.; Khotan, V. K.; Stevens, R. F.; Chacko, M. J.; and Kapuskar, M., "Design and Construction of Large Diameter Impact Driven Pipe Pile Foundations New East Span San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 43.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session01/43
Design and Construction of Large Diameter Impact Driven Pipe Pile Foundations New East Span San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
New York, New York
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most heavily traveled bridges in the world. The east span of the bridge will be replaced due to seismic safety concerns. The new bridge will be founded mostly on large 1.8 to 2.5-meter diameter, approximately 60- to 100-meter long pile foundations. American Petroleum Institute (API) method was used for pile design, since the selected foundation type is similar to those used for offshore oil platforms and the subsurface conditions are in many ways similar to those in the Gulf of Mexico. Piles foundations will experience tension loads of up to approximately 90 MN and compression loads of up to approximately 140 MN during the design earthquake. Prior to Production pile driving, a cofferdam will be constructed at each pier location, the pilecap footing box will be placed inside and the piles will be driven through the footing box with the use of a 500 to 1700 kilojoule Menck MHU-500 and MHU-1700 hydraulic impact hammer. Based on the Pile Installation Demonstration Project that was conducted in the fall of 2000, a soil-pile setup with time and acceptance criteria was established to accept the production piles.
