A Short Course in Soil-Structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels

Part 1: Deep foundations - piles, barrettes - Uses and types of piles and pile groups - Vertical pile load transfer mechanism - Failure load on piles: definitions, interpretation and criteria - Establishment of new failure load criterion for large-diameter bored piles and barrettes - Analysis, design and parameters - Dynamic formulae - Design of rock-socketed piles - Case studies: rock-socket piles - Pile instrumentation: a case study of a well-instrumented barrette in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong - Case studies: 15 full-scale loading tests on barrettes in Hong Kong - Case studies: bored piles in weathered materials Hong Kong - Settlement analysis of piles and pile groups - Summary Part 2: Multi-propped deep excavations - Stress paths in relation to a deep excavation - Plastic geo-structural analysis - Preliminary design for deep excavations (short course notes) - Instrumentation: a case study of a multi-propped excavation at Lion Yard, Cambridge - Lateral pressure of wet concrete in diaphragm walls - Stress transfer and deformation mechanisms around diaphragm walls - Effects of modelling soil non-linearity and wall installation on back-analysis of deep excavations in stiff clay - Comparison of Wall-Installation-Modelled (WIM) and Wished-In-Place (WIP) analyses with Mohr Coulomb model - Prediction of ground movements due to diaphragm wall installation - The prediction and control of displacements around deep excavations in Completely Decomposed Granite - Summary Part 3: Bored and open face tunnelling below cities - Unsupported tunnels: theoretical assessment of the collapse of soil arches - Modern tunnel construction techniques - Principal design and construction requirements - Case study: the Heathrow Express Trial Tunnel - Finite element modelling of multi-tunnel interactions and tunnelling effects on adjacent piles - Effect of ground movements on buildings - Case study: Effect of the Jubilee Line Extension on the Big Ben Clock Tower - Summary