Midwest Geotechnical Workshop

Sep 15, 2009
Matteson, IL
38th Midwest Geotechnical Workshop
Location: FHWA RC Office, 4794 Lincoln Mall Dr, Suite 600, Matteson, Il 60443 September 15, 2009
Contact: Naser Abu-Hejleh, Geotechnical Engineer, FHWA Resource Center, (708) 283-3550

Goals: Discuss and share practices among the Midwest States on certain important and challenging geotechnical engineering topics and issues.

Topics will include:

LRFD Pile design procedure of a driven pile at the axial compression strength limit. Methods employed by DOT to determine the nominal geotechnical resistance in the design phase (static analysis methods) and during construction (Gates) and their resistance factors. Are these practices in line with AASHTO or developed locally? Issues with the transition from ASD to LRFD-cost, role of drive-ability analysis, setup, maximum factored load a pile can support, maximum pile length a pile can be safely driven to, difference between pile length estimated in the design and determined in the field.

PDA use in general

CPT use - Who is using it and how is the data being utilized?

Electronic data collection and storage

Developing seismic site class for LRFD

Drilled shaft calculations

Level of training given to designers

Micro and auger cast piles

naser.abu-hejleh@dot.gov

Past Conference Agendas

• 2007 Agenda
• 2006 Agenda
• 2004 Agenda
• 2003 Agenda

For more information on the Midwest States Geotechnical Conference, contact:

Naser Abu-Hejleh
Geotechnical Engineer
FHWA Resource Center
(720) 963-3550
naser.abu-hejleh@dot.gov

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Contact:

Naser Abu-Hejleh
Resource Center (Matteson)
708-283-3550
naser.abu-hejleh@fhwa.dot.gov