September/October 2021 - 33

46th
ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON DEEP FOUNDATIONS | 2021
FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE*
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | Conference Day 1
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Controlling Thermal Stresses in Barrier Walls
Karsten Beckhaus, Dr.-Ing. | BAUER Foundations
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 4:25 PM
4:25 PM - 6:05 PM
4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 5:05 PM
5:05 PM - 5:25 PM
5:25 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM - 6:05 PM
Discussion
Interpretation and Evaluation of Thermal Integrity Profiling
Measurements
Travis Coleman, P.E. | GRL Engineers
Discussion
Networking Break & Exhibition | City-by-City Companions are Welcome | Exhibit Hall, Premier Ballroom
PARALLEL SESSION A2 | Rooms 318 - 320
National and International Case Histories A
Moderator: Kirk A. McIntosh, P.E., D.GE | Terracon
Foundation Performance of Millennium Tower in San Francisco,
California
Jonathan Stewart, Ph.D., P.E. | UCLA
Gordie Howe International Bridge Foundations - Drilled Shaft
Construction in Challenging Detroit Limestone
Noah Miner, P.E., and Jim Glider | Malcolm Drilling Co. Inc.
Atoka Canadian River Crossing Shafts
Charles Luxford, P.E., S.E. | Brierley Associates and Jewels Stover |
Nicholson Construction
Large Scale Geotechnical Works on Norways Largest
Infrastructure Project
Osman Besler, M.Sc. | Middle East Technical University
Radium Hospital Project in Oslo, Norway
Wojciech Szczepinski | Keller Geoteknikk AS
6:05 PM - 8:05 PM
PARALLEL SESSION B2 | Rooms 355-358
Foundation Monitoring and Testing B
Moderator: Paul Thurlow | Geo-Instruments, Inc.
Top-Loaded Bidirectional Test, a New Approach to Deep Foundations
Load Testing
Rozbeh Moghaddam, P.E., Ph.D. | RBM Consulting Group, Inc.
Testing Rammed Stone Columns as a Soil Improvement Method on
Soft Soils for Foundation of MSE Walls
Bernardo Jiménez, P.Eng., M.Sc. | H Solis
Integrity Testing of Drilled Displacement Piles at a Major Campus
Mark Fuhriman, P.E., G.E. | Kleinfelder and Robert Fosse | Terracon
Applications of Nondestructive Testing Methods for Mass
Foundation Blocks
Hamed Layssi, Ph.D., P.Eng. | FPrimeC Solutions Inc.
A New Low-Cost Bi-directional Load Test Technique for
Drilled Shafts
Sherif Elfass, Ph.D., P.E., P.M.P. | University of Nevada, Reno
Welcome Reception and Exhibition for Attendees and Companions | Exhibit Hall, Premier Ballroom
On-Demand Presentations*
Challenges of Unanticipated Soil Conditions
n Embankment Construction Over
Presumpscot Formation Clays for
Maine Turnpike Exit 45 Interchange
Joseph Zwetchkenbaum, P.E. | HNTB Corporation
n Geophysical Subsurface Characterization
to Estimate Top-of-Rock Elevation for
Deep Foundations in Challenging Geologic
Settings: Numerical Investigation of
Full Waveform Tomography
Joseph Coe | Temple University
Deep Foundation Advancements
n Digitalization in Reverse Circulation Drill Rigs
Nikolas Schmitz | MHWirth
Foundation Monitoring and Testing
n Case Study: Which Test Method Would You
Put Your Money On? Comparing Conflicting
Conclusions from Different Integrity Testing
Methods on the Same Drilled Shafts
Matthew Becker, P.E. and Alex Ryberg, P.E. |
GRL Engineers Inc.
Jochen Maure | fielddata.io GmbH
National and International Case Histories
n Stability Assessment of a Deadman Anchor Pile
Close to the Bulkhead Wall
Wenjun Dong, Chief Geotechnica Engineer |
Bittner-Shen Consulting Engineers, Inc.
n Replacement Piles for the Houphouet-Boigny
Bridge, Cote D'ivoire
Adrian Mercer, MICE BSc(Hons) | Institution of
Civil Egineers (UK)
Other Deep Foundations Topics
n Pile Lateral Behaviour Under Full Scale
Lateral Load Tests in Thick Compacted Marine
Carbonate Sand Fill of an Artifical Island
Ganapathi Rao Konni, Ph.D. | Petrofac
International Ltd.
n Completely Automatized Recognition of the
Manufacturing Process in Special Foundation
Construction
n Design Methodology for Multi-Facetted,
Winged Steel Foundations
N. Catherine Bazan-Arias, Ph.D., P.E. | DiGioia,
Gray & Associates, LLC
n Soil Nail Design Optimization of 100 ft Deep
Excavation Project in San Diego, CA
Babak Mamaqani, Ph.D., P.E. and Pirooz Barar |
PB&A Inc.
n Flood Protection System for Infrastructures:
Methodology and Instrumentation Testing
Taylor Malangone | AECOM
Sustainability
n Cyclic Degradation on Wind Turbine
Foundations in Cohesive Soils
Yazen Khasawneh, Ph.D., P.E. | University of Notre
Dame
Continued from previous page
*subject to change

http://www.fielddata.io

September/October 2021

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of September/October 2021