ADSC Technical Library Catalog

July 30, 2013 rockman Available Resources Comments Off on ADSC Technical Library Catalog
ADSC Technical Library Catalog

ADSC Technical Library Catalog

The Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors or ADSC has a catalog of their technical library available through their website. ADSC has countless useful publications for drilled shaft designers, most of them very reasonably priced for members and non-members. [Source: ADSC. Image: ADSC]

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The Use of the Pile Driving Analyzer for Installing Pile Foundations

March 2, 2011 Scott A Barnhill Articles, Deep Foundations Comments Off on The Use of the Pile Driving Analyzer for Installing Pile Foundations

Typical pile driving analyzer or PDA setup

[Editor] The pile driving analyzer or PDA is used to measure the response of piles during driving. It was originally developed to analyze pile drivability, but is sometimes used as a substitute for pile static load tests to determine . Mr. Scott A. Barnhill, P.E., Executive Vice President of consulting firm GeoEnvironmental Resources, Inc. located in Virginia Beach, Virginia has seen PDA being used and misused over his 33-year career. In this article, Mr. Barnhill describes pitfalls in relying solely on the PDA for pile capacities, and also describes what PDA is good at and how it can be used successfully. [/Editor]

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