Large caissons are widely applied in bridge tower foundations and anchor foundations because they can provide reliable bearing capacity and stability 1. Since a large caisson has a large dead load, ...

With the continuous development of urban underground space development, shield tunnel engineering inevitably intersects with existing traffic trunk lines, municipal pipe networks and buildings in the ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

In earthquake-prone San Francisco, crews are digging the city's deepest foundation piles for an 802-ft-tall office-residential tower that is on course to be the city's second-tallest structure, if ...