GRIMSBY BRIDGE PIER PILES PROVIDE COMPOSITE FOUNDATION AND SUPPORT COLUMNS

Details are given of some of the difficulties encountered during a piling operation involved in providing piling for the road bridge across Grimsby's Alexandra dock. The marine work involved boring up to 40 m depths and the careful placing of large diameter permanent casings specially coated over their upper sections. The bridge carries a dual carriageway supported on land-based abutments and two rows of piers forming a three-span crossing with a cast-in-situ reinforced concrete deck. Both the west and east abutments for the bridge are formed within the chalk fill embankments on either side of the dock and are each supported by four 1200 mm diameter piles founded in the underlying chalk stratum. Separate sections describe the construction of abutment piles (carried out from a levelled platform in the chalk fill embankments) and construction of the piles in the dock (constructed from a jack-up barge). (TRRL)

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  Foundation Publications Limited

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  Brentwood CM15 9AU, Essex,   England 
• Publication Date: 1984-3

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 18-21
• Serial:
  • GROUND ENGINEERING
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
  • ISSN: 0017-4653

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abutments; Boring; Bridge abutments; Bridge foundations; Bridge piers; Chalks; Columns; Composite construction; Construction management; Handling and storage; Ports; Storage facilities; Support piles
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 3424: Abutment; 3434: Bridge pier; 4120: Chalk; 3666: Construction method; 3399: Pile; 1098: Port; 9137: Storage; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Freight Transportation; Highways; Terminals and Facilities; I53: Construction of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00393283
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1985 12:00AM