The DFI Committee Project Fund provides financial support for technical committee projects that advance the state of practice and understanding of deep foundations, and produce a usable deliverable. Since its inception in 2011, the DFI Committee Project Fund has awarded over $200,000 in funding to committee initiatives. This year, DFI received 11 committee- 2014 DFI Committee Project Fund – Awards Announced The DFI Board of Trustees reviewed the funding recommendations and awarded funding for the following 2014 committee projects for a total of $102,940: Soil Mixing Committee – The project endorsed proposals for a total funding request of $298,900. DFI Vice President John Wolosick chaired the Project Fund Review Committee, a multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse group of 10 active DFI members. The review committee ranked and recommended proposals for award based on the following criteria, as appropriate to the scope of the project: • Benefits to deep foundations industry (broad impact) • Innovation • Timeliness/relevance/immediacy of impact from results • Quality of proposal (clarity, focus) • Value of deliverable • Probability of achieving goal • Cost/benefit and cost sharing (matching funding, in-kind contributions) includes studies to define relationships between strength and deformation properties of soil-cement mixtures, a n d a p p r o p r i a t e laboratory procedures to determine these prope r t i e s dur ing design and verify them during construction. The work wi l l be performed by Professor George Filz of Virginia Tech. Deliverables will include a detailed report and articles in Deep Foundations magazine and the DFI Journal. Funding amount: $29,940. Driven Pile Committee – The project Drilled Shaft/ Seismic and Lateral Loads Committees $30,000 Driven Pile Committee $15,000 is funded jointly with the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) and consists of updates to the CRSI Design Handbook tables used for pile design. Updates will include the latest code provisions contained in ACI 318-11, higher strength steel pipe piles (capacities up to 900 tons [816 tonnes]), under- standing of deep pile cap behavior as presented in the literature and finite element modeling. The work will be performed by Professor Timothy Mays of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Deliverables will include user-friendly spreadsheets, tables and supporting calcu- lations, and a finite element modeling report. Funding amount: $15,000 (DFI), $39,000 (CRSI and others). Soil Mixing Committee $29,940 Marine Foundations Committee $28,000 Marine Foundations Committee Since its inception in 2011, the DFI Committee Project Fund has awarded over $200,000 in funding to committee initiatives. supported by the Driven Pile Committee – The project consists of a comparative study on vibratory versus impact piles. It will investigate the factors that influence vibrodriveability and methods for prediction, effects of vibratory driving on soil state and the influence of effective stress changes on the soil-pile behavior, and comparison of axial and lateral capacities of vibr a tor y and impact driven piles. The work will be led by Dr. Paul Doherty of Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions, Ltd. Project deliverables will include an article in Deep Foundations magazine, presentations at SuperPile and the DFI Annual Conference, a final report, and a DFI Journal article. Funding amount: $28,000. Drilled Shaft/Seismic and Lateral Loads Committees, ADSC Industry Advancement Fund (IAF) and ADSC West Coast Chapter (WCC) – The jointly funded project will consist of a lateral load test database for drilled shafts. It follows the 2013 DFI funding of the online database (www.findapile.com) being developed by Professor Anne Lemnitzer of University of California Irvine. The project will expand the database to allow download of database files and assessment of more in-depth conclusions on p-y procedures and implications and recommendations for integration in common design practices and software. Deliverables will include the online database and presentations at the 2014 DFI Annual Conference and the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Exposition (IFCEE) in San Antonio, Texas, March 2015. Funding amount: $30,000 (DFI), $15,000 (ADSC IAF), $15,000 (ADSC WCC). Funding awarded for 2014 committee projects totaled $102,940 DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAY/JUN 2014 • 81
