FORMAL OBSERVATIONAL APPROACH TO STAGED LOADING
Construction of a major industrial facility on soft clay was accomplished by staged loading to consolidate and thus increase the strength of foundation soils before the complete final load was applied. Extensive in situ and laboratory testing allowed a formal observational approach to be used, in which uncertainty analysis of the preliminary design was combined with field monitoring data to update soil parameter and site condition estimates. Traditional Bayesian methods were used to modify initial estimates and thus to update predictions of facility performance in the later stages of construction.
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- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1582, Centrifuge Modeling, Intelligent Geotechnical Systems, and Reliability-Based Design.
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Authors:
- Baecher, G B
- Ladd, C C
- Publication Date: 1997
Language
- English
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- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 49-52
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1582
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Consolidation; Construction; Field tests; Forecasting; Foundation soils; Laboratory tests; Loading and unloading; Monitoring; Performance; Soft clays; Soils
- Uncontrolled Terms: Performance prediction; Soil consolidation
- Old TRIS Terms: Staged loading
- Subject Areas: Construction; Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;
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- Accession Number: 00740655
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309061571
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Sep 10 1997 12:00AM