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Bentley ProStructures v8i.SS7.08.11.11.616 [Size: 1.25 GB] ... ProSteel provides detailing for structural steel and metal work and ProConcrete detailing and scheduling of reinforced insitu/precast and post-tensioned concrete structures.

ProStructures enables engineers to reduce documentation production time and assists them in eliminating errors and design flaws and to design and document composite structures.

Based on standard platforms, ProStructures easily allows structural engineers, detailers, and fabricators to create 3D models for both concrete and steel. ProStructures provides automatic creation of documentation, details, and schedules. The open working environment and programming interface supports standardization of the program.

Bentley’s ProStructures includes ProSteel and ProConcrete: The automatic creation of documentation and details increases productivity and therefore profitability. The detailing includes miscellaneous steel such as stairs, handrails, ladders, and circular stairs. The documentation provides 2D drawings from a 3D model, including bills of materials, NC data, and PPS data. * ProStructures eliminates duplication of effort and increases interoperability. It offers integration with Bentley products as well as third-party products. * ProStructures can be easily customized and standardized due to its flexibility and the programming interface. Workflows are optimized due to this open working environment. * From initial planning and design to assembly, ProStructures is a comprehensive software built by engineers experienced with design.

The Federation of Piling Specialists and In Association with BGA ... 
642 pages
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2nd edition (January 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0727733583
ISBN-13: 978-0727733580

The new ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls is designed to be used as the new technical specification for piling and embedded walling works either on land or near to shore. It documents the latest piling techniques and procurement methods used in the foundations sector whilst incorporating the changes introduced by the new European Standards.

C. W. W. Ng, N. Simons, B. Keith Menzies ... 
416 pages - Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing; (January, 2004) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0727732633 - ISBN-13: 978-0727732637 ...

The fourth in the highly respected Short Course Series, A Short Course in Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels, focuses on the three major geotechnical challenges of static soil-structure interaction problems. Deep foundations piles, barrettes, Multi-propped deep excavations and Bored and open face tunnels beneath cities. This book gives both students and practising civil engineers an authoritative review of the state-of-the-art of designing deep foundations, excavations and tunnels.

Shamsher Prakash, Hari D. Sharma ... This is a concise, systematic and complete treatment of the design and construction of pile foundations. Discusses pile behavior under various loadings and types of piles and their installation, including consideration of soil parameters. It provides step-by-step design procedures for piles subject to vertical loading and pullout, lateral, inclined and eccentric loads, or dynamic loads, and for piles in permafrost. Also describes load test procedures and their interpretation and buckling of long, slender piles with and without supported length. The closing chapter presents case histories of prediction and performance of piles and pile groups. Includes numerous solved problems.

Info-Details: 768 pages - Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1st edition (July, 1990) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0471616532 - ISBN-13: 978-0471616535 ...

Magued Iskander ... 
269 pages
Publisher: Springer; (January 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3642131077
ISBN-13: 978-3642131073

One of the major difficulties in predicting the capacity of pipe piles in sand has resulted from a lack of understanding of the physical processes that control the behavior of piles during installation and loading.

This monograph presents a detailed blue print for developing experimental facilities necessary to identify these processes. These facilities include a unique instrumented double-walled pipe-pile that is used to delineate the frictional stresses acting against the external and internal surfaces of the pile. The pile is fitted with miniature pore-pressure transducers to monitor the generation of pore water pressure during installation and loading. A fast automatic laboratory pile hammer capable of representing the phenomena that occur during pile driving was also developed and used. Finally, a pressure chamber; feedback control system; data acquisition system; loading frame; sand handling, pluviating, saturating, and drying apparatus have been integrated to allow convenient load testing of piles under simulated field conditions. The experimental apparatus is presented with sufficient details to allow readers to duplicate or modify the design to suit their own needs.

A number of load tests were carried out to identify the effects of inertia and build-up of pore water pressure on pile plugging. Continuous measurement of dynamic and static excess pore pressures, frictional and end bearing stresses, and the elevation of the soil inside the pile during installation and loading are presented. The results of the testing program validates the performance of the developed apparatus, and provide unique insights into soil-structure interaction during pile driving and subsequent loading. The work contributes to a better understanding of pile behavior.