TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hertlein,Bernard
AU  - Davis,Allen G.
TI  - Nondestructive testing of deep foundations
SN  - 0470848502 (hbk.)
U1  - 624.150287 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chichester, England
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - Foundations
KW  - Testing
KW  - Piling (Civil engineering)
KW  - Nondestructive testing
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction and brief history - 2. Deep foudation construction methods - 3. How soils affect the choice of foundation - 4. Traditional, visual and new inspection methods for deep foundation construction - 5. A review of full-scale load-testing techniques - 6. High-strain testing for capacity and/or integrity - 7. Low-strain surface tests-sonic echo - 8. Sonic mobility (impulse response) - 9. The impedance-log analysis - 10. Low-strain down-hole tests - 11. Field mock-ups of deep foundations: class-a predictions - 12. The reliability of pile shaft integrity testing - 13. Current research - 14. The place of nondestructive testing at the beginning of the 21st century - Appendix I: Stress-wave propagation in cylindrical structures - Appendix II: Contact addresses - Appendix III: Standards referred to in this book - Appendix IV: Sample specifications for ndt methods for deep foundations - References - Index
ER  -