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  • Why and Why Now? Answering the Fundamental Questions of Failure Forensics for Geo-Structural Systems
    John S. Horvath
    The professional practice of civil engineering has long benefitted and advanced as the result of lessons learned from failures of both engineered and non-engineered structures. This monograph provides a comprehensive summary of lessons learned from both failures and sub-failures (’near misses’ or ’close calls’) in geotechnical and foundation engineering and related structural e...
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  • Small Angles, Large Benefits...The Unique Behavior of Tapered Piles
    John S Horvath
    Tapered driven piles have been used worldwide for over 7000 years. Despite this long, successful history, foundation designers and contractors still do not fully appreciate what is called ’taper benefit’, i.e. the fact that in friction- or floating-pile applications that tapered piles are generally much more cost effective than constant-perimeter piles on a load-bearing basis. ...
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