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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Civil engineers at Purdue University are leading a project with the Indiana Department of Transportation to learn how to use a type of bridge pile often seen in offshore ...
Two methods are prescribed for identifying the location of the neutral plane and determining the amount of downdrag and resulting drag load. These two methods include Method A, an analysis method ...