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Teach Faculty Constructibility

Publication Date: 15-JAN-01
Author: James M. Melcher
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Let me give you an example. We were asked to install drilled shaft foundations for a large power transmission tower in the Midwest. Drilled shafts are great foundations for these towers. They're relatively straightforward to design, and we've installed hundreds of them. But in this instance, the project engineer tried to optimize the design, mistakenly thinking that he could save some concrete ...

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