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1. Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading, 2nd Edition

   By Lymon C. Reese, William F. Van Impe

   The complexities of designing piles for lateral loads are manifold as there are many forces that are critical to the design of big structures such as bridges, offshore and waterfront structures and retaining walls. The loads on structures should be supported either horizontally or laterally or in...

   Published January 4th 2011 by CRC Press
2. Deep Foundations on Bored and Auger Piles - BAP V

   5th International Symposium on Deep Foundations on Bored and Auger Piles (BAP V), 8-10 September 2008, Ghent, Belgium, Book + CD-ROM

   Edited by William F. Van Impe, Peter van Impe

   Although progressing very well over the last years, the design criteria for bored and auger piles are still not fully under control and in acceptable synergism with the real pile foundation behaviour. Although there has been a lot of research in the past years worldwide on deep...

   Published August 19th 2008 by CRC Press
3. Underwater Embankments on Soft Soil

   A Case History

   By William F. Van Impe, R. Daniel Verastegui Flores

   Ground improvement is an established technique in foundation engineering. In recent decades, modern methods of ground improvement have utilised explosives, impact energy, thermal treatment of the soil, vacuum consolidation, vibratory compaction technologies, stabilization and solidification of soft...

   Published May 9th 2007 by Taylor & Francis