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28 A Foundation 34 Spread Footings 40 Screw Piles and 46 Foundation Engineering Trip Revisited Helical Anchors Engineering… 102 JANUARY // FEBRUARY 2015 FOUNDATIONS Proudly published by the Geo-Institute of ASCE GEOPIER IS GROUND IMPROVEMENT.™ Work with engineers worldwide to solve your ground improvement challenges. THE GEOPIER SRT SYSTEM: LOW-IMPACT SLOPE STABILITY WE HELP YOU FIX BAD GROUND. An existing slope along the high occupancy travel lanes of the I-495 Capital Beltway in Fairfax, Virginia had an For more information call 800-371-7470, unacceptable factor of safety against sliding. The slope was e-mail [email protected] or visit geopier.com. a perfect application for the Geopier SRT system. SRT is a slope reinforcement technology that uses rigid steel Plate Pile™ elements to stabilize shallow failing slopes or reinforce marginally stable slopes. The use of small, mobile equipment allowed for the work to be performed directly on the slope with no interruption of traffic. This project demonstrated that the SRT system can successfully be installed along roadways with difficult access, while decreasing construction time and earthwork operations. ©2014 Geopier Foundation Company, Inc. The Geopier® technology and brand names are protected under U.S. patents and trademarks listed at www.geopier.com/patents and other trademark applications and patents pending. Other foreign patents, patent applications, trademark registrations, and trademark applications also exist. January // February 2015 Features 28 A Foundation Engineering Trip 52 Evaluating Bridges with Down the Mississippi Unknown Foundations for Foundations for Mississippi River bridges from Susceptibility to Scour Minnesota to Louisiana. North Carolina applies risk-based guidelines to over By Dan Brown, Paul Axtell, and Steve Dapp 3,750 bridges. By Mohammed A. Mulla 34 Spread Footings Revisited Geotechnical advances lead to expanded use for 58 Bill Shannon and Stan Wilson bridge abutments. Geotechnical pioneers with a 60-year legacy. By Derrick Dasenbrock By Hollie Ellis 28 A Foundation 34 Spread Footings 40 Screw Piles and 46 Foundation 40 Screw Piles and Helical Anchors Engineering Trip Revisited Helical Anchors Engineering… 102 ON THE COVER 180 years of use in geotechnical engineering. A worker prepares one of the many dowel JANUARY // FEBRUARY 2015 By Alan J. Lutenegger and Samuel P. Clemence holes for post-tensioned threaded rods that will be used to connect the old pile cap to a new 8-ft–thick, reinforced concrete foundation FOUNDATIONS positioned over the top of the existing pile cap. 46 Foundation Engineering… 102 This construction will allow for the transfer of So much has changed in the years since Nat Fox first superstructure loads away from the damaged existing H-Pile foundation to the new 48-in– experimented with select over-excavation Proudly published by the Geo-Institute of ASCE diameter, drilled shaft foundations bearing in his backyard. on bedrock 175 ft below. This work is being By Kord J. Wissmann performed in Wilmington, DE, as part of the I-495 Emergency Repair Project on the piers that had suffered foundation damage in 2014. 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At the and Geotechnical Engineering courses. The new end of the day, that is what you want to see: amazing pictures professor will be expected to teach undergraduate that illustrate the beauty of our profession. The magazine is level courses (German or English) and graduate incredible, very enjoyable. level courses (English). They must have a vigorous Thank you very much for continually improving this maga- record of scientific publication and externally zine, for including new sections but also maintaining the older funded research or outstanding industrial achie- ones that help us to keep track of our profession. I am sure your work is appreciated by many others; it is just that we do not vements, through individual and collaborative, show it as often as we should! national or international projects.