Inadequate design of two immense gate caissons for the world’s largest ship lock, located in the Netherlands, will cost its design-build construction team $65 million to fix and will complicate the ...
Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...
US supermajor ConocoPhillips is set to carry out an unusual project in Canada’s Beaufort Sea this summer involving the transport of about 25,000 tonnes of caissons that were used to build the first ...