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2018 GRIP Meeting

Meeting Information

August 9-10, 2018

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

Meeting Agenda (PDF-234 KB)

Day One -- Thursday, August 9, 2018

No.	Time	Topic	Presenter
	8:45 – 9:00	Welcome	Rodrigo Herrera and Dave Horhota
1	9:00 – 9:45	Development of an Improved Vertical and Horizontal In-situ Permeameter (VAHIP) Field Implementation of the Vertical In-situ Permeameter (VIP)	Drs. Ana Mohseni Harald Krammler and Mike Rodgers
2	9:45 – 10:15	Bearing Capacity Factors for Shallow Foundations Subject to Combined Lateral and Axial Loading	Drs. Scott Wasman and Michael McVay
3	10:15 – 10:45	Estimating Soil Pressure against Unyielding Surfaces	Drs. Mike Rodgers and Michael McVay
4	10:45 – 11:15	Implementation of Down-Hole Geophysical Testing for Rock Sockets	Dr. Dennis Hiltunen
5	11:15 – 12:00	Measuring While Drilling (MWD) for Florida Site Investigations Implementation of Measuring While Drilling Shafts in Florida	Drs. Mike Rodgers and Michael McVay
	12:00 – 1:00	Lunch Break
6	1:00 – 1:45	Evaluating the Effect of Temporary Casing on Drilled Shaft Rock Socket Friction Effect of Polymer Slurry Stabilization on Drilled Shaft Side Shear over Time	Dr. Gray Mullins
7	1:45 – 2:30	Development and Testing of the Miniaturized Pavement Pressuremeter	Dr. Paul Cosentino
8	2:30 – 3:00	LRFD Factors for Tip Grouted Drilled Shafts	Dr. Gray Mullins
9	3:00 – 3:45	Design Phase Evaluations of High Pile Rebound Soils with an Emphasis on SPT Testing Quantifying Pile Rebound with Deflection Measuring Systems Best Suited for Florida Soils	Dr. Paul Cosentino
10	3:45 – 4:15	Sinkhole Detection with 3-D Full Elastic Seismic Waveform Tomography	Drs. Khiem Tran and Michael McVay
11	4:15 – 5:00	Effect of Proximity of Sheet Pile Walls on the Apparent Capacity of Driven Displacement Piles	Drs. Jae Chung and Michael Davidson

Day Two -- Friday, August 10, 2018

No.	Time	Topic	Presenter
12	8:15 – 8:30	Underwater Noise Level Study during Impact Pile Driving	Dr. Raphael Crowley
13	8:30 – 9:00	Determining Bearing Resistance of Cantilever Sheet Piles	Drs. Xiaoyu Song and Amirata Taghavi
14	9:00 – 9:30	Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation to Stabilize Florida High-Organic Soils	Dr. Raphael Crowley
15	9:30 – 10:00	Strength Envelopes for Florida Rock and Intermediate Geomaterials	Drs. Michael McVay and Xiaoyu Song
16	10:00 – 10:15	Development of GS-DEEP Software (pending approved scope of services)	Drs. Michael Davidson and Michael McVay
17	10:15 – 11:00	Development of a Sinkhole Risk Evaluation Program	Dr. Boo Nam
18	11:00 – 11:30	Comparison of SPT N-value with Alternative Field Test Methods in Determining Moduli for Settlement Predictions	Drs. Manoj Chopra and Luis Monsalve
19	11:30 – 12:00	Development of Statistical Models to Predict Compressibility of Florida’s Soils	Dr. Boo Nam
20	12:00 – 12:15	Prediction Model of Vibration-Induced Settlement Due to Pile Driving (pending approved scope of services)	Drs. Boo Nam and Luis Monsalve