1st Edition
New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development
By Naim Afgan
Copyright 2004
492 Pages
by
CRC Press
492 Pages
by
CRC Press
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The International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development held in Ponta Delgada, Azores (2002), Portugal, has provided technology specialists and hardware developers with the opportunity to discuss, review and demonstrate the research directions, the design methodologies, and the production techniques leading to cost- effective energy technologies for... Read more
Preface, Introductory address, Foreword, Organisation, Acknowledgements, Contributions, Deep foundations and the need for research on screw piles in Belgium, Engineering geology of the Limelette site with emphasis of the Lutetian sands, Soil investigation campaign at Limelette (Belgium) : Results, Pile testing campaign on the Limelette test site & Installation techniques of screw piles, Excavation of the test piles on the Limelette site : Observations and measurements, Results of the static pile load tests at the Limelette test site, International pile capacity prediction event at Limelette, Practical experience with screw piles used for the high-speed railway in Belgium, Experiences with pile foundations of the Federal Public Buildings Agency, Experiences with pile foundations of Tractebel Engineering,The current draft of the application rules of Eurocode 7 in Belgium for the design of pile foundations, Conclusion, Geotechnical Working groups, Board Belgian member society of ISSMGE, Cooperating piling contractors, Author index
Biography
Instituto Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal. Instituto Superior Technico, Lisbon, Portugal.
