Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
14 Aug 2008, 2:15pm - 4:00pm
Abstract
A gravel storage building and distribution facility was planned for construction at the West Parr yard located in the Port of Richmond, California. The general subsurface profile consists of a fill layer overlying a lens of young bay mud, a soft to med stiff silty clay and clayey silt. Below that lied a deeper dense clayey sand and stiff clay layer. The ground water table elevation observed in borings was approximately 7 to 10 feet below the current ground surface. Loads in excess of 3,500 psf would be applied to these strata and relatively tight settlements tolerances were necessitated to maintain functionality of the building’s conveyor systems. Deep pile foundations were considered but due to the excessive costs and operational challenges, it was elected to implement a ground modification system, jet grout columns, to transfer the loads through the undocumented fill and young bay muds, to the more competent, stiff clay layer below.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, 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
Ivanetich, Ken and Shao, Lisheng, "Jet Grouting for Mass Treatment to Support an Aggregate Stockpile Building over Very Soft Clays" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 30.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session07/30
Jet Grouting for Mass Treatment to Support an Aggregate Stockpile Building over Very Soft Clays
Arlington, Virginia
A gravel storage building and distribution facility was planned for construction at the West Parr yard located in the Port of Richmond, California. The general subsurface profile consists of a fill layer overlying a lens of young bay mud, a soft to med stiff silty clay and clayey silt. Below that lied a deeper dense clayey sand and stiff clay layer. The ground water table elevation observed in borings was approximately 7 to 10 feet below the current ground surface. Loads in excess of 3,500 psf would be applied to these strata and relatively tight settlements tolerances were necessitated to maintain functionality of the building’s conveyor systems. Deep pile foundations were considered but due to the excessive costs and operational challenges, it was elected to implement a ground modification system, jet grout columns, to transfer the loads through the undocumented fill and young bay muds, to the more competent, stiff clay layer below.
