Analysis, Design, Construction, and Testing of Deep Foundations

Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Research Center Conference, held in Austin, Texas, April 29-30, 1999. Sponsored by the Geo-Institute.

This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 19 papers presenting the latest cutting-edge research in analysis, design, construction, and testing of deep foundations. Although deep foundations are used extensively for the support of structures in both terrestrial and marine environments, significant uncertainties still exist in predicting the field behavior of such foundations.

Topics include:

• pile foundation collapse,
• three-dimensional analysis,
• pile driving techniques, and
• suction caisson foundations.

This volume honors Lymon C. Reese, an international authority in deep foundations and originator of the p-y method, which is widely used in predicting behavior of deep foundations under lateral loading.