Negative skin friction (NSF) is an important phenomenon in geotechnical engineering, referring to the additional axial drag imposed on piles as a result of differential soil movement relative to the ...

A review of the previous report prepared for NCHRP Project 12-116, “Proposed AASHTO Specifications for Design of Piles for Downdrag” (Rollins 2019), and the broader literature was completed by the ...

A Drivecast pile installation with extremely low overhead clearance. The versatile, high-capacity friction pile technology gives installers a valuable alternative to traditional, large-scale deep ...

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can be used in construction to predict pile bearing capacity. South Ural State University (SUSU) scientists have considered that neural network predictions ...