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State Materials Office

Meeting Information

 

August 8-9, 2012

Florida Department of Transportation, State Materials Office, 5007 NE 39th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 323609

Meeting Agenda [PDF - 24KB]

Day One -- Thursday, August 8, 2013

Please Note: Final report presentations are designated below. Titles with and (*) are newly approved projects.

 

Time

Topic

Presenter

9:15 - 9:45

 Development of LRFD Resistance Factors for Retaining Walls Dr. Michael McVay

9:45 - 10:30

 Final Report: Development of a Smear Proof Horizontal and Vertical Permeability Probe Dr. Raphael Crowley

10:30 - 11:30

 Field Testing of a Jet-Grouted Pile and Mast Arm Drilled Shaft Foundation Dr. Michael McVay

11:30 - 12:00

 Bottom Side Grouting of Drilled Shafts Prior to Tip Grouting Dr. Michael McVay

1:00 - 1:30

 Effect of High Viscosity Slurry on Drilled Shaft Performance Dr. Gray Mullins

1:30 - 2:00

 Investigation of Erosion Rates of Field Samples Using FDOT's Enhanced Sediment Erosion Rate Flume (SERF) Dr. Raphael Crowley

2:00 - 2:30

 Soil Mixing Design Methods and Construction Techniques for Use in High Organic Soils Dr. Gray Mullins

2:45 - 3:15

 Ground Tire Rubber (GTR) as a Stabilizer for Subgrade Soils Dr. Paul Cosentino

3:15 - 3:45

 Drilled Shaft Resistance Based on Diameter, Torque and Crowd (Drilling Resistance versus Rock Strength) Dr. Michael McVay

3:45 - 4:00

 Improving Design Phase Evaluations for High Pile Rebound * Dr. Paul Cosentino

Day Two -- Friday, August 9, 2013

Please Note: Final report presentations are designated below. Titles with and (*) are newly approved projects.

 

Time

Topic

Presenter

8:30 - 9:30

 Final Report: Detection of Sinkholes or Anomalies Using Full Seismic Wave Fields Drs. Khiem Tran and Michael McVay

9:30 - 10:30

 Final Report: Evaluation of Vibration Limits and Mitigation Techniques for Urban Construction
Bayraktar Presentation | Svinkin Presentation		 Drs. Emre Bayraktar and Mark Svinkin

10:45 - 11:15

 Final Report: Continuation of Down-Hole Geophysical Testing for Rock Sockets Dr. Dennis Hiltunen

11:15 - 11:45

 Pile/Shaft Designs Using Artificial Neural Networks with Spatial Variability Considerations Drs. Khiem Tran and Michael McVay

11:45 - 12:00

 Evaluation of Static Resistance Estimates Through FB-DEEP * Dr. Michael McVay