Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
02 May 2013, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Abstract
The seawalls that surround Ellis Island were constructed in the early 1900s and now show varying degrees of deterioration. The approach to the structural repair of the seawalls consisted of installing H-piles and ground anchors for stabilization of vertical and horizontal seawall movements. The H-piles were driven through the retained soils along the seawalls to top of rock. This paper presents ground vibration data collected simultaneously by four seismographs during driving of 40 piles (up to 100 ft depth) at various distances from the historical buildings. A correlation between the recorded PPV values and the distance to pile driving is presented. Also, a specific comparison between the measured attenuations from an instrumented pile with documented driving energy records and those recommended in published literature is presented. It was found that the vibrations induced by pile driving well exceeded the Peak Particle Velocity limits established in the project specifications and those commonly established in the literature. However, damage to the historical buildings was not significant.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
7th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2013 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
Fernandez, Sixto, "Ellis Island: Vibration Effects on Historic Buildings Caused by Pile Driving" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session08/2
Ellis Island: Vibration Effects on Historic Buildings Caused by Pile Driving
Chicago, Illinois
The seawalls that surround Ellis Island were constructed in the early 1900s and now show varying degrees of deterioration. The approach to the structural repair of the seawalls consisted of installing H-piles and ground anchors for stabilization of vertical and horizontal seawall movements. The H-piles were driven through the retained soils along the seawalls to top of rock. This paper presents ground vibration data collected simultaneously by four seismographs during driving of 40 piles (up to 100 ft depth) at various distances from the historical buildings. A correlation between the recorded PPV values and the distance to pile driving is presented. Also, a specific comparison between the measured attenuations from an instrumented pile with documented driving energy records and those recommended in published literature is presented. It was found that the vibrations induced by pile driving well exceeded the Peak Particle Velocity limits established in the project specifications and those commonly established in the literature. However, damage to the historical buildings was not significant.
