Pile Design and Construction Practice Book PDF by Michael Tomlinson & John Woodward

Saad Iqbal | 🗓️ Modified: December 4, 2017 | ⏳ Read Time: 3 min | 👁 Post Views: 129

Piling rigs are a common place feature on building sites in cities and towns today. The continuous introduction of new, more powerful, and self-erecting machines for installing piled foundations has transformed the economics of this form of construction in ground conditions where, in the past, first consideration would have been given to conventional spread or … Read more

Pile Foundation Construction Procedure

Saad Iqbal | 🗓️ Modified: December 3, 2017 | ⏳ Read Time: 4 min | 👁 Post Views: 206

We have already defined the pile foundation, its type and importance in case of low bearing ground conditions. But this post will mainly deal about the procedures and steps that are undertaken for the construction of pile foundation. Pile foundation construction procedure is not simple as it involves heavy machinery at times and requires fair … Read more

Difference between End Bearing Piles and Skin Friction Piles.

Saad Iqbal | 🗓️ Modified: November 25, 2017 | ⏳ Read Time: 4 min | 👁 Post Views: 343

Deep foundation especially pile foundation is best suited and mostly used for a low bearing and bad textured soil or for the heavy load structures. Bearing capacity is the deciding factor for the geotechnical design of foundation. Bearing capacity of soil is defined as load bearing capacity of the soil without having different settlement as … Read more

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cast in Situ Concrete Piles

Saad Iqbal | 🗓️ Modified: November 24, 2017 | ⏳ Read Time: 6 min | 👁 Post Views: 195

Cast In Situ is a term meaning a construction item or structural member like a beam or in this case a Pile that is to be constructed, assembled or poured at site rather than prefabrication in a factory. Generally in cast in place or cast in situ construction concrete is transported from a batch plant … Read more

Right of Way – Definition – Width – Roads – Highways

Saad Iqbal | 🗓️ Modified: November 23, 2017 | ⏳ Read Time: 5 min | 👁 Post Views: 102

When you’re into dealing with different pieces of land or in highway engineering, you need to figure out what is right of way width for a road or for any civil engineering property.  We drive on highways and use public amenities such as streets and sidewalks frequently but we don’t think about them very much … Read more