ABSTRACT The use of steel tendons in soil nailing and ground anchoring has been commonplace for both permanent and temporary applications. Double corrosion protection (DCP) is required to ensure a serviceable design life, and these have evolved to become complicated assemblies comprising numerous components. This…
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ABSTRACT Waka Kotahi, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), under its policy of providing a safer and more resilient road network, has adopted the NSW Government Transport, Roads & Maritime Services ‘Guide to Slope Risk Analysis’ to provide a consistent methodology for assessing safety to…
ABSTRACT The design and construction of temporary working platforms for cranes and piling rigs is a high-risk activity and requires the careful selection of the appropriate input parameters to obtain the correct load cases as well as the application of robust and reliable design methods…
ABSTRACT The lateral load transfer between a pile and laterally spreading ground during an earthquake is a complex soil-structure interaction problem given the significant nonlinear behaviour of soils during such an event. This interaction becomes more complex when piles are used as a retaining…
ABSTRACT New Zealand State Highways are exposed to a range of natural hazards including earthquake triggered liquefaction and lateral spreading. Using a recently developed geospatial model, a framework to assess the liquefaction risk across the State Highway network was proposed, combining liquefaction probability, recurrence and…
ABSTRACT Cone Penetration Testing (CPT) is commonly used in routine geotechnical investigations throughout NZ. It provides a valuable resource for the geotechnical profession. However, different contractors undertake CPT testing in slightly different ways, and they may not necessarily follow recognised international standards for the test….
ABSTRACT Driven timber piles are a common pile type used in New Zealand. Established direct design methods from CPT, such as the LCPC method (Bustamante and Gianeselli, 1982), do not include driven timber piles as a specific pile type in those methods. In this study,…
ABSTRACT Tremie concrete enables the construction of deep foundations such as piles and diaphragm walls as it is self-compacting, can be placed under a support fluid and is resistant to segregation. As the urban landscape within New Zealand increases in density, deeper and more complex…
ABSTRACT This paper provides investigation into response of (forward-rotated or backrotated) piles subjected to embankment loading, in light of 2-/3-layer models. First, recent advance is briefly reviewed concerning range of parameters used to model piles subjected to excavation and embankment loading. Second, simulations of six…