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2019 GRIP Meeting

Meeting Information

August 15-16, 2019

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

Meeting Agenda (PDF-316 KB)

Day One -- Thursday, August 15, 2019

No.	Time	Topic	Presenter
	8:15 – 8:30	Welcome	Rodrigo Herrera and Dave Horhota
1	8:30 – 9:00	Determining Bearing Resistance of Cantilever Sheet Piles	Drs. Xiaoyu Song & Amirata Taghavi
2	9:00 – 9:45	Bearing Capacity Factors for Shallow Foundations Subject to Combined Lateral and Axial Loading	Drs. Scott Wasman
3	9:45 – 10:15	Sinkhole Detection with 3-D Full Elastic Seismic Waveform Tomography	Dr. Khiem Tran
4	10:15 – 10:45	Implementation of Down-Hole Geophysical Testing for Rock Sockets	Dr. Dennis Hiltunen
5	10:45 – 11:30	Measuring While Drilling (MWD) for Florida Site Investigations	Drs. Mike Rodgers and Michael McVay
6	11:30 – 12:00	Implementation of Measuring While Drilling Shafts in Florida	Drs. Mike Rodgers and Michael McVay
	12:00 – 1:00	Lunch Break
7	1:00 – 1:45	LRFD Factors for Tip Grouted Drilled Shafts	Dr. Gray Mullins
8	1:45 – 2:00	Field Investigation of Downdrag on Concrete Piles in Sandy Soil (pending approved scope of services)	Dr. Gray Mullins
9	2:00 – 2:30	Design Phase Evaluations of High Pile Rebound Soils with an Emphasis on SPT Testing	Dr. Paul Cosentino
10	2:30 – 3:00	Quantifying Pile Rebound with Deflection Measuring Systems Best Suited for Florida Soils	Dr. Paul Cosentino
	3:00 – 3:15	Break
11	3:15 – 3:45	Estimating Soil Pressure against Unyielding Surfaces	Dr. Mike Rodgers
12	3:45 – 4:15	Field Implementation of the Vertical In-situ Permeameter (VIP)	Dr. Mike Rodgers
13	4:15 – 4:45	Development of GS-DEEP software	Dr. Michael Davidson
14	4:45 – 5:00	Performance Testing of GRS Test Piers Constructed with Florida Aggregates – Axial Load Deformation Relationships (pending approved scope of services)	Dr. Scott Wasman

Day Two -- Friday, August 16, 2019

No.	Time	Topic	Presenter
15	8:30 – 9:15	Strength Envelopes for Florida Rock and Intermediate Geomaterials	Drs. Michael McVay & Xiaoyu Song
16	9:15 – 9:30	Field Load Testing of Florida Limestone (pending approved scope of services)	Dr. Michael McVay
17	9:30 – 10:00	Underwater Noise Level Study during Impact Pile Driving	Dr. Raphael Crowley
18	10:30 – 10:15	In-service Assessment of Road Sinkholes with 2D Ambient Noise Tomography (pending approved scope of services)	Dr. Khiem Tran
	10:15 – 10:30	Break
19	10:30 – 11:00	Prediction Model of Vibration-Induced Settlement Due to Pile Driving	Drs. Boo Nam & Luis Monsalve
20	11:00 – 11:30	Development of an Improved Vertical and Horizontal In-situ Permeameter (VAHIP)	Dr. Ana Mohseni
21	11:30 – 12:30	Comparison of SPT N-value with Alternative Field Test Methods in Determining Moduli for Settlement Predictions	Drs. Manoj Chopra & Luis Monsalve
22	12:00 – 12:30	Development of Statistical Models to Predict Compressibility of Florida’s Soils	Dr. Boo Nam