Why would an established highway contractor with a history of using a crane with diesel hammer for pile driving be working at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with a sophisticated pile driving rig? That ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Civil engineers at Purdue University are leading a project with the Indiana Department of Transportation to learn how to use a type of bridge pile often seen in offshore ...
On December 8, 2011, the massive eight-hammer vibratory pile driver hammer dubbed the "Octakong" drove the last of 120, 72-ft.-diameter steel piles into place in front of a crowd of over 200 people ...
A new project has been launched to learn how to use a type of bridge pile often seen in offshore applications. The research could help reduce the cost of bridge building or replacement of aging spans.