Belgian Screw Pile Technology - Proceedings of the Symposium, May 7 2003, Brussels, Belgium

This volume provides an overview of the results of an extended test campaign performed on soil displacement screw piles at Limelett in Belgium in the period 2000-2002, where test piles have been installed to a very dense sand layer.

List of contents

Preface, Introductory address, Foreword, Organisation, Acknowledgements, Contributions, Deep foundations and the need for research on screw piles in Belgium, Engineering geology of the Limelette site with emphasis of the Lutetian sands, Soil investigation campaign at Limelette (Belgium) : Results, Pile testing campaign on the Limelette test site & Installation techniques of screw piles, Excavation of the test piles on the Limelette site : Observations and measurements, Results of the static pile load tests at the Limelette test site, International pile capacity prediction event at Limelette, Practical experience with screw piles used for the high-speed railway in Belgium, Experiences with pile foundations of the Federal Public Buildings Agency, Experiences with pile foundations of Tractebel Engineering,The current draft of the application rules of Eurocode 7 in Belgium for the design of pile foundations, Conclusion, Geotechnical Working groups, Board Belgian member society of ISSMGE, Cooperating piling contractors, Author index

About the author

J. Maertens and N. Huybrechts

Product details

• Assisted by: N. Huybrechts (Editor), Noël Huybrechts (Editor), J. Maertens (Editor), Jan Maertens (Editor), Maertens J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9789058095787
• ISBN: 978-90-5809-578-7
• No. of pages: 372
• Weight: 793 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Belgium, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Soil & Rock, Soil & rock mechanics, Soil and rock mechanics