2017 GRIP Meeting

August 17-18, 2017

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 – 9:30	Field Testing and Calibration of the Vertical Insitu Permeameter (VIP)	Drs. Ana Mohseni and Harald Krammler
9:30 – 10:00	Bearing Capacity Factors for Shallow Foundations Subject to Combined Lateral and Axial Loading	Drs. Scott Wasman and Michael McVay
10:00 – 10:30	Strength Envelopes for Florida Rock and Intermediate Geomaterials	Drs. Michael McVay and Xiaoyu Song
10:45 – 11:15	Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation to Stabilize Florida High-Organic Soils	Dr. Raphael Crowley
11:15 – 11:45	Thermal Integrity Profiling for Augered Cast-In-Place Piles - Implementation Plan	Drs. Gray Mullins and Kevin Johnson
1:00 – 1:30	Development and Testing of the Miniaturized Pavement Pressuremeter	Dr. Paul Cosentino
1:30 – 2:00	Evaluating Effect of Temporary Casing on Drilled Shaft Rock Socket Friction	Dr. Gray Mullins
2:00 – 2:30	Design Phase Evaluations of High Pile Rebound Soils with an Emphasis on SPT Testing	Dr. Paul Cosentino
2:30 – 3:00	Effect of Polymer Slurry Stabilization on Drilled Shaft Side Shear over Time	Dr. Gray Mullins
3:15 – 3:45	Measurement System for Pile Rebound during Construction and Design Geotechnical Investigation Improving	Dr. Paul Cosentino
3:45 – 4:15	LRFD Factors for Tip Grouted Drilled Shafts	Dr. Gray Mullins
4:15 – 4:30	Sinkhole Detection with 3-D Full Elastic Seismic Waveform Tomography*	Drs. Khiem Tran and Michael McVay
4:30 – 4:45	Estimating Soil Pressure against Unyielding Surfaces*	Dr. Mike Rodgers

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

Time	Topic	Presenter
8:30 – 9:00	Measuring while Drilling for Florida Site Investigations	Drs. Mike Rodgers and Michael McVay
9:00 – 9:30	Implementation of Down-Hole Geophysical Testing for Rock Sockets	Dr. Dennis Hiltunen
9:30 – 10:00	Effect of Proximity of Sheet Pile Walls on the Apparent Capacity of Driven Displacement Piles	Drs. Jae Chung and Michael McVay
10:30 – 11:00	Evaluation of Static Resistance Estimates through FB-DEEP	Drs. Michael McVay and Jae Chung
11:00 – 11:30	Development of a Sinkhole Risk Evaluation Program	Dr. Boo Nam
11:30 – 11:45	Development of Statistical Models to Predict the Compressibility of Florida’s Soils	Dr. Boo Nam
11:45 – 12:00	Comparison of SPT N-value with Alternative Field Test Methods in Determining Moduli for Settlement Predictions*	Dr. Manoj Chopra