Equipment supplier and Caterpillar dealer Empire Southwest is known throughout the region as a supplier of heavy machinery for innovative and unique projects. Last year, the firm began work on their ...
Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...
The caissons are made of reinforced concrete with the rebar lattice constructed on site. The 10-in.-thick tilt-up walls were also poured and tilted on site. All concrete work on the project is being ...