Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

The methods of preparing, air-seasoning and preserving timber against borer attack are the same as those described for fungal de ...

durability in a non-aggressive environment. However, concrete can be attacked by sulphates and sulphuric acid occurring naturall ...

The sulphate content of the groundwater gives the best indication of the likely severity of sulphate attack, particularly that r ...

continue into permeable soil deposits which are not naturally sulphate-bearing. An account of the distribution of sulphates in v ...

to accumulation of laitance. Weak concrete used as a binding layer beneath pile caps is also vulnerable to sulphate attack when ...

On a site where there was severe contamination with acid industrial waste the authors advised a protective scheme for the founda ...

10.4 Durability and protection of steel piles 10.4.1 Steel piles for land structures Corrosion of iron or steel in the electroly ...

of 0.0l mm per year. No precautions are required for such low rates of loss of thickness. Where piles in land structures are ext ...

Other protective measures in contaminated disturbed ground include jacketting the pile with concrete or filling the shafts of ho ...

over these zones, particularly in the low-water and splash zones (see BS 6349 (8.1)). The development of ‘macro-cells’in the ste ...

zinc silicate epoxy primer and aliphatic polyurethane or epoxy topcoats at a total dry film thickness of 240 m would be suitabl ...

economics, taking into account the capital costs of installation, the current consumption, the costs of maintenance, and the int ...

The importance of a thorough ground investigation as an essential preliminary to piling operations cannot be over-emphasized. Ac ...

Ground investigations, contracts and testing 499 information on the compressibility of the soil or rock strata with depth, thus ...

500 Ground investigations, contracts and pile testing (or other strong relatively incompressible material) and the overburden. A ...

Trial pits are often a useful adjunct to borehole exploration for a piling project. Shallow trial pits are excavated in filled g ...

11.1.3 Drilling in rock Weak rocks can be drilled by percussion equipment, but this technique is useful only to determine the le ...

Ground investigations, contracts and testing 503 for shearing strength on conventional ‘undisturbed’soil samples indicate sheari ...

504 Ground investigations, contracts and pile testing experience gained in these applications the test is particularly useful fo ...

Ground investigations, contracts and testing 505 the increase in diameter of the cylinder over an increasing range of cell press ...