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The next DFI / ADSC Joint Micropile Committee meeting will take place at the ADSC Summer Meeting in San Francisco, CA on Thursday, August 2nd from 8AM to 10AM. All committee members are encouraged to attend. The venue location is below:
The Fairmont San Francisco
950 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA
(415) 772-5000
To see a copy of the latest Chairman’s report for the Joint Committee, click HERE.
More information on the ADSC Summer Meeting can be found HERE. See you in San Francisco!
The 2012 DFI / ADSC Micropile Seminar will be held as part of the 2012 Small Diameter Geo-Support Design and Construction Seminar currently scheduled for November 13-14, 2012 to be held at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport in Herndon, VA.
The Small Diameter Geo-Support Design and Construction Seminar is a two-day event that will cover aspects of both anchored earth retention and micropile foundation support from a perspective of design, construction and case history coverage. The event will feature presentations from the leading North American and worldwide experts on small diameter geo-support system design and construction. The event will be useful to owners, engineers, architects, general contractors and others in terms of understanding the fundamentals, applications, design and construction of small diameter ground anchors and micropiles for both earth retention and foundation support applications. There will be opportunities for networking and individual discussion with the panelists and presenters throughout the event. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn from and network with the best in the industry!
Day 1 will be the Anchored Earth Retention portion of the seminar. Day 2 will be the Micropile Foundation Support portion. Exhibit spaces will be available. More information will be posted as the program is finalized.
Invitation to Speakers – Call for Papers
The 11th ISM International Workshop on Micropiles is currently scheduled for October of 2012 in Italy. Papers are solicited on the following micropile topics:
State of Practice
Innovations
Technical Challenges
Historic Renovation
Load Testing
Numerical Analysis on Micropiles or Micropile Walls
Education and Market Growth / Potential
IBO Bond Values and Challenging Soils
Equipment Evolution
Slope Stabilization and Shoring with Micropiles
Micropile Networks and Reticulation
Lessons Learned
Please submit abstracts to info@ismicropiles.org
Submission of an abstract indicates your intent to submit a full paper for consideration by the Program Committee.
KEY DATES:
Abstracts due February 28, 2012
Acceptance of Abstracts March 15, 2012
Draft papers due June 1, 2012
Reviewer comments returned to authors by July 1, 2012
Final, revised papers due August 31, 2012
For more information, contact:
Mary Ellen C. Bruce, PE, DFI Technical Activities Manager
+1 (724) 942-0813 or mebruce@dfi.org
Dr. Tony Marinucci, PE, ADSC Director of Operations
+1 (469) 359-6000 or tmarinucci@adsc-iafd.com
The date and venue for Super Pile 2012 has been finalized. The date is May 16-17, 2012 and the venue will be the Hilton Portland & Executive Towers in Portland, OR. Please note that this date is different than the tentative date advertised in the original Call for Abstracts. See the updated Invitation to Speakers and Call for Abstracts below for additional details.
The next DFI / ADSC Joint Micropile Committee meeting will take place at the DFI 36th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Boston, MA on Wednesday, October 19th from 10AM to 12PM. All committee members are encouraged to attend. The venue location is below:
The Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center
One Seaport Lane
Boston, MA 02210
1-877-SEAPORT
To see a copy of the latest Chairman’s report for the Joint Committee, click HERE.
More information on the 36th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations can be found HERE. See you in Boston!
May 16-17, 2012
Hilton Portland & Executive Towers
Portland, OR, USA
Six of DFI’s technical committees have joined forces to organize this year’s Super Pile Conference. The two-days will consist of sessions on the subjects of Driven Piles, Augercast Piles, Drilled Shafts, Micropiles, deep foundation applications in the marine environment, testing and evaluation of foundation systems as well as design for seismic considerations. The first day will be a combined session; the second day will be two concurrent sessions giving attendees the option to choose which presentations are of interest to them.
Presentations will focus on concept/method, historical development, theory and design, system specifications, system attributes and ideas for future development. Equipment, material and instrumentation suppliers and vendors will be presenting their services as well in the exhibit hall. Complete details of the event as plan progress can be found at www.dfi.org.
Presentation proposals are solicited on the following topics relating to Driven Piles, Augercast Piles, Drilled Shafts, Micropiles, Testing and Evaluation, and Marine Foundations:
Potential Speakers for SuperPile 2012 should submit a brief abstract (no more than 300 words) describing the subject matter of their proposed presentation. Please include the presentation title and presenter name in the abstract document. The due date for abstract submissions is Friday, December 16, 2011. Please send proposals to DFI Headquarters via email to Katie Criqui (kcriqui@dfi.org).
Notification of acceptance and guidelines for presentation development will be returned to all submitters no later than Monday, January 23, 2012.
All authors of accepted proposals will be required to commit to presenting their topic on May 16th or 17th and will be required to submit a paper or PowerPoint presentation handout to be included in the seminar publication by Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
Questions should be directed to:
Katie Criqui, Event Coordinator
Deep Foundations Institute
326 Lafayette Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ 07506 USA
Tel: 973-423-4030, FAX: 973-423-4031, Email: kcriqui@dfi.org
The following upcoming events are good places to learn about micropiles and stay up to date on what is going on in the micropile industry. Some are micropile specific while others are more general deep foundations oriented with micropile components or associated events. Click on the individual links for more information:
DFI / ADSC Joint Micropile Committee Meeting
Thursday, July 28, 2011
ADSC Summer Meeting
The Charleston Place Hotel, Charleston, SC
ADSC Anchor and Micropile Installation School (AMPIS)
September 11-16, 2011
Houston, TX
DFI 36th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations
October 18-21, 2011
The Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, MA
ADSC 2012 Equipment Expo and Conference
March 14-17, 2012
San Antonio, TX
DFI SuperPile 2012
May 16-17, 2012
Portland, OR
DFI / ADSC 2012 Micropile Seminar
Tentative Date: Mid-November 2012 (exact date TBD)
Washington, DC
Stay tuned for more information as the dates for these events get closer.
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If you missed the last one, there is another ASCE Continuing Education webinar coming up on LRFD for Geotechnical Engineering Features: Micropile Foundations. The date is advertised as Friday, July 29, 2011 at 11:30AM to 1:00PM. You get the best bang for your buck if you register and make it available to a group because for one registration fee, you can have an unlimited number of people from your organization attend at your site. I have seen this webinar and it is worthwhile if you are new to AASHTO LRFD Design for Micropiles or if you just want to get a bunch of geotechnical engineers together on a Friday to have fun talking about Micropiles. I know of one group that registered an entire local ASCE Geotechnical Chapter for it.
Find out more and register for the event HERE. The webinar description is below:
This webinar focuses on micropile foundations. Micropile foundations are often a technically sound and cost-effective foundation choice where a deep foundation solution is appropriate based on site conditions, applied loads and project schedule and performance requirements. The Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) platform offers a rational framework for consideration of micropile foundation systems. The webinar will use the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) LRFD Bridge and Structures Specifications as a basis for the technical content. The webinar will include discussion on the terminology and construction of micropiles. It will also focus on topics such as: identification of limit states and resistance factors, axial compression and uplift resistance of a single micropile, estimation of grout-ground bond resistance and tip resistance, and group efficiency factors for evaluation of axial resistance of micropiles in groups. It is assumed that the participant has a basic working knowledge of design and construction of deep foundations.
The 2011 DFI / ADSC Micropile Seminar held last week in Little Rock, AR was an exciting whirlwind tour of micropile technology and featured presentations from the leading micropile practitioners in the United States and worldwide. The next Micropile Seminar will occur sometime in either Spring, Summer or Fall of 2012. Keep an eye out for information on this event that is likely to be combined with an Anchored Earth Retention seminar to boot.
If you are interested in LRFD for Micropiles, I have posted my presentation on the subject from the seminar on my Scribd page. You can view that presentation and others I have given in the past at http://www.scribd.com/jonbennett. If you have questions or comments as to other aspects you would like to see covered, let me know as I will be presenting a revised version at the next seminar.
In terms of upcoming Micropile industry events, don’t miss SuperPile this week in Charleston, SC. The next ADSC / DFI Joint Micropile Committee meeting will be held at the ADSC Summer Meeting also in Charleston, SC. Check ADSC’s website for information on that. Hope to see you at one of these events.
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