Engineering News-Record

Empire Southwest Rebuild Facility Rests on Solid Caisson Foundation

Equipment supplier and Caterpillar dealer Empire Southwest is known throughout the region as a supplier of heavy machinery for innovative and unique projects. Last year, the firm began work on their ...
Medicine Buffalo

Dynamic Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Analysis of Large Caissons

Keywords: Reinforced concrete. Caissons. Long span bridges. Equivalent linear analysis. Nonlinear analysis. Soil structure interaction. Abstract: Large cellular reinforced concrete caissons exist as ...
Medicine Buffalo

Bridge Foundations: Modeling Large Pile Groups and Caissons for Seismic Design

Keywords: Seismic designs. Large pile groups. Caissons. Retrofitting. Long-span bridges. Ground motions. Soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI). Kinematic soil-pile interaction. Linear stiffness ...
The New York Times

WORK IN THE CAISSONS OF THIRD EAST RIVER BRIDGE; Death of Three Laborers Employed in Making Foundations for the Brooklyn Tower Causes Contractors to Desist from Their Attempt ...

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Engineering News-Record

Empire Southwest Rebuild Facility Rests on Solid Caisson Foundation

The caissons are made of reinforced concrete with the rebar lattice constructed on site. The 10-in.-thick tilt-up walls were also poured and tilted on site. All concrete work on the project is being ...