2011 GRIP Meeting
The 2011 Geotechnical Research In Progress (GRIP) Meeting was held in Gainesville at the FDOT State Materials Office on July 28-29, 2011. For additional information, please select the below link.
 

• Meeting Information: Agenda and Presentations
   

Driven Concrete Pile Foundation Monitoring With Embedded Data Collector System
International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo '09 (IFCEE '09), held March 15-19, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
 

• Presentation [PDF-579KB]
  By Rodrigo Herrera, P.E.; Lawrence E. Jones, P.E.; Peter Lai, P.E.
   

• Paper [PDF-243KB]
  By Rodrigo Herrera, P.E.; Lawrence E. Jones, P.E.; Peter Lai, P.E.
  Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) sponsored research performed at the University of Florida resulted in developing a wireless monitoring and real time static capacity estimate technology for driven piles. This new technology, Embedded Data Collector (EDC), uses two levels of instrumentation, embedded in the body of precast prestressed concrete piles near the head and tip.