Final Program - American Society of Civil Engineers

SHORT COURSES
You must purchase a separate ticket for short courses; this is not
included in your daily or full Congress registration. Full-day courses
include morning coffee, morning and afternoon breaks, and lunch.
half-day courses include morning coffee and morning or afternoon
break; lunch tickets are available for purchase.
HALF-DAY SHORT COURSES
(includes morning coffee & morning or afternoon break)
PDHs: 3.5
Fees: Member: $125
Non-Member: $145
Student: $25
MASW (MULTICHANNEL ANALYSIS
OF SURFACE WAVES)
7:30 – 11:45 a.m.
location: Grand Ballroom B
MASW is a multichannel seismic method used to determine the shearwave
velocity (Vs) of ground (1-D and 2-D) down to depths of a few
tens of meters. The method uses surface waves which contribute more
than 70% of the total seismic wave energy and therefore represent the
most troublesome noise during the conventional seismic surveys. Come
see how to generate and record surface waves!
You Will Gain Knowledge About:
■■ How to generate and record surface waves
■■ The multichannel seismic survey
■■ How to collect field data (active and Passive MASW)
■■ How to process data (active and passive MASW)
Instructor: Choon B. Park, Ph.D., Park Seismic llC
TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF PILES, AND DESIGN
OF PILE FOUNDATIONS
7:30 – 11:45 a.m.
location: Grand Ballroom A
The current trend in deep foundations is towards larger loads, larger
diameter, and deeper piles, and the supported structures are becoming
more sensitive to foundation deformation. As a result, static loading
tests on instrumented piles are becoming more common. Additionally,
the practice is increasingly requiring detailed analysis of the test and
implementing the analysis results in foundation design. Advanced deep
foundation design is a good deal more than finding some value of
capacity. Indeed, capacity is not the primary issue, but load distribution
and settlement under service load are. In this course, you will share in
the broad generalities and in-depth details regarding several testing
and analysis examples of piles and the design of piled foundations.
You Will Gain Knowledge About:
■■ The pros and cons of the current methods of testing and the
conventional head-down and the O-cell tests in reference to case
histories.
■■ Construction aspects.
■■ Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD).
■■ The basic principles of effective stress analysis which are correlated
to case histories involving instrumented piles, residual load, and
development over time.
■■ The principles of settlement analysis of single piles and small and
large pile groups from aspects of load directly on the piles and from
influence from adjacent activity.
■■ The design in settling ground and reclaimed land where piles will be
affected by drag load and down drag and the “Unified pile design
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method for capacity, settlement, drag load, and down drag” using
actual project examples.
Instructor: Bengt H. Fellenius, Dr.Tech., P.Eng., M.ASCE,
Consulting Engineer
INTRODUCTION TO TUNNELING
12:00 – 4:15 p.m.
location: Grand Ballroom B
In today’s society of increased environmental concern and sensitivity,
population increase, and urbanization, there is demand for fast
and sustainable transportation of people, water, and goods, along
with production and storage of energy. Tunnels and underground
excavations often provide a life-cycle cost-effective alternative to surface
or aerial infrastructure. The major benefit of this tunneling short course is
to provide you a structured introduction to this field of application, with
special emphasis on the geotechnical community.
You Will Gain Knowledge About:
■■ Tunnel behavior
■■ The typical design and construction workflow
■■ How to describe and outline the investigation, diagnosis, and
therapy phases of tunnel design
■■ The difference between confinement and pre-confinement
■■ The nomenclature on excavation systems
■■ How to identify the objectives and techniques for monitoring
Instructors: Fulvio Tonon, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, University of
Texas at Austin
RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
12:00 – 4:15 p.m.
location: Grand Ballroom A
Reliability-based design (RBD) is increasingly mandated by new
generation geotechnical codes of practice. The key objective of this short
course is to cover the four “need to know” concepts below so you will
learn how to compute a reliability index in a realistic and robust way.
1. Familiarization with basic probability tools
2. Estimation of geotechnical uncertainties
3. Calculation of reliability index using Excel
4. Illustration using design examples
You are encouraged to bring your laptop to follow the hands-on Excel
demonstrations and, if time permits, to try additional worked examples under
the guidance of the instructors. This course, conducted in various locales
such as Taipei, Shanghai, and Munich, is based in part, on the textbook
“Reliability-Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering: Computations and
Applications” by KK Phoon (ed.), Taylor & Francis, 2008.
You Will Gain Knowledge About:
■■ Basic probability tools
■■ Geotechnical uncertainty estimations
■■ How to calculate reliability index using Excel
■■ Illustration
Instructors: Kok-Kwang Phoon, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE,
national University of Singapore; Jianye Ching, Ph.D., C.Eng,
M.ASCE, national Taiwan University