Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
02 May 2013, 8:45 am - 9:30 am
Abstract
The 151 storey super high-rise building is located in an area of reclaimed land constructed over soft marine clay in Songdo, Korea and is currently under design. This paper describes the design process in developing the foundation system of the supertall tower.The foundation design process described includes the initial stages of geotechnical site characterization using the results of investigation boreholes and geotechnical parameter selection, and a series of detailed two- and three-dimensional numerical analysis for the Tower foundation comprising 172 bored piles of varying length using finite element and boundary element methods. This paper will also provide a summary of the vertical and lateral pile load testing programs under both static and cyclic loading.
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
Poulos, Harry G., "Tall Building Foundation Design – the 151 Story Incheon Tower" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 8.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session16/8
Tall Building Foundation Design – the 151 Story Incheon Tower
Chicago, Illinois
The 151 storey super high-rise building is located in an area of reclaimed land constructed over soft marine clay in Songdo, Korea and is currently under design. This paper describes the design process in developing the foundation system of the supertall tower.The foundation design process described includes the initial stages of geotechnical site characterization using the results of investigation boreholes and geotechnical parameter selection, and a series of detailed two- and three-dimensional numerical analysis for the Tower foundation comprising 172 bored piles of varying length using finite element and boundary element methods. This paper will also provide a summary of the vertical and lateral pile load testing programs under both static and cyclic loading.
