Document Status
Current
Supplement
Civil & Structural Supplement
Abstract
Reviews publications concerned with improving design of continuous flight augured piles in chalk. Documents considered include CIRIA’s ‘Shaft friction of CFA piles in chalk' (Project Report 86) and ‘Foundations in chalk’ (Project Report 11). Suggests an approach to design in the light of limitations to existing information.
History
Last reviewed 2013.
Subjects
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Bored piles
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Bearing piles
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Earthworks/foundations/piling/retaining walls
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Civil engineering, infrastructure and public utilities
Publisher History
Since 1963 the Federation of Piling Specialists has provided technical guidance to the ground engineering sector.
Information
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