Samuel Paikowsky, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and president of GeoDynamica Inc. delivered the 2019 DFI Osterberg Memorial Lecture at SuperPile ’19 in Seattle, May 2019. The title of his talk was “Capacity Testing of Deep Foundations: Successes and Pitfalls.”
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