2014 GRIP Meeting

July 31, 2014 to August 1, 2014

Florida Department of Transportation, State Materials Office, 5007 NE 39th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32609

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

Time	Topic	Presenter
9:00 - 10:00	Final Report: Development of LRFD Resistance Factors for Retaining Walls [PDF-2.26MB]	Drs. Michael McVay and Scott Wasman
10:00 - 11:00	Final Report: Field Testing of a Jet-Grouted Pile and Mast Arm Drilled Shaft Foundation [PDF-4.04MB]	Drs. Michael McVay and S. Thiyyakkandi
11:00 - 12:00	Final Report: Bottom Side Grouting of Drilled Shafts Prior to Tip Grouting [PDF-4.0MB]	Dr. Michael McVay
1:00 - 2:00	Final Report: Effect of High Viscosity Slurry on Drilled Shaft Performance [PDF-22.5MB]	Dr. Gray Mullins
2:00 - 3:00	Final Report: Ground Tire Rubber (GTR) as a Stabilizer for Subgrade Soils [PDF-2.95MB]	Dr. Paul Cosentino
3:15 - 3:45	Soil Mixing Design Methods and Construction Techniques for Use in High Organic Soils [PDF-7.71MB]	Dr. Gray Mullins
3:45 - 4:15	Improving Design Phase Evaluations for High Pile Rebound Sites [PDF-1.67MB]	Dr. Paul Cosentino
4:15 - 4:30	Field Device to Measure Viscosity, Density, and Other Properties in Drilled Shafts* [PDF-1.23MB]	Dr. Gray Mullins
4:30 - 4:45	Optimizing the Use of the Thermal Integrity Testing System for Evaluating Auger-Cast Piles* [PDF-4.32MB]	Dr. Gray Mullins
4:45 - 5:00	Embedded Data Collector – Phase II Load and Resistance Factor Design* [PDF-954KB]	Drs. Michael McVay and Scott Wasman

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

Time	Topic	Presenter
8:30 - 9:00	Drilled Shaft Resistance Based on Diameter, Torque and Crowd (Drilling Resistance versus Rock Strength) [PDF-1.29MB]	Dr. Michael McVay
9:00 - 10:00	Final Report: Pile/Shaft Designs Using Artificial Neural Networks with Spatial Variability Considerations [PDF-3.20MB]	Drs. Michael McVay and Mike Faraone
10:00 - 10:30	Evaluation of Static Resistance Estimates through FB-DEEP [PDF-1.28MB]	Dr. Michael McVay
10:45 - 11:15	Distribution of Chloride, pH, Resistivity, and Sulfate Levels in Backfill for MSE Walls and Implications for Corrosion Testing [PDF-741KB]	Drs. Manjriker Gunaratne and Noreen Poor
11:15 - 11:30	LRFD Resistance Factors for Auger Cast In Place Piles (ACIP)* [PDF-599KB]	Drs. Michael McVay and Scott Wasman
11:30 - 11:45	Effect of Proximity of Sheet Pile Walls on the Apparent Capacity of Driven Displacement Piles* [PDF-1.31MB]	Drs. Jae Chung and Michael McVay
11:45 - 12:00	Field Testing and Calibration of the Vertical Insitu Permeameter (VIP)* [PDF-684KB]	Dr. Ana Mohseni