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ESCSIESCSI FEATURED 04-2003 OFPROJECT THE MONTH N.E. SOLITE Charter Oak Bridge • Settlement & Stability PROJECT Charter Oak Bridge Project, Lightweight Fill Solutions to Interstate 84 Settlement and Stability Problems LOCATION Hartford, Connecticut on Charter Oak Bridge Project in Hartford, Connecticut OWNER State of Connecticut by John P. Dugan, Jr. PE Haley & Aldrich, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut DESIGN ENGINEER Reprinted with permission from the Transportation Research Board; Haley & Aldrich, Inc. National Research Council, Washington, DC; Transportation Research Glastonbury, Connecticut Record No. 1422; Lightweight Artificial and Waste Materials for Embankments Over Soft Soils, October 1993 CONTRACTOR Morrison Knudsen, Boise, Idaho LIGHTWEIGHT CERAMIC AGGREGATE PRODUCERS Northeast Solite Corporation Norlite, Inc. LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATE Expanded Shale Quantity: 110,000 tons Placement Rate: Lightweight fill at east abutment 800-2,000 tons/day CHARTER OAK BRIDGE PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW Lift Thickness: 2 ft. Design and construction of the Charter Oak Bridge and approaches Average In-Place Density: over soft soils were complex and challenging. To solve settlement 53 to 58 lbs/ft3 and stability problems arising from highway and bridge construction over deep deposits of soft varved clay in the the Connecticut River PROJECT SIZE valley the following applications of lightweight fill were made. $110 Million Lightweight fill was placed for the high approach fill layer for the east abutment. The reduced stresses imposed in the clay layer, combined with the lightweight fill’s higher shear strength compared with that of an earth fill, solved this embankment stability problem. Lightweight fill was placed in approach embankments for a replacement bridge to reduce settlements of the adjacent existing bridge.
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