7th ISM Workshop, Schrobenhausen, Germany, 2006 Technical Session 1: Welcome, Introductions and Invited Speakers •Welcomes - Bauer Maschinen GmbH Ing. Erwin Stötzer, Chief Executive Officer •Welcomes - Local Organizing Committee Prof. Norbert Vogt, Technical University at Munich, Germany •ISM Chairman Dr. Donald Bruce, Geosystems, L.P. USA •3rd Lizzi Lecture Performance of Seismic Retrofits with High Capacity Micropiles Mr. Jiro Fukui, Public Works Research Institute, Japan •2nd Lizzi Scholarship Recipient “Buckling of Slender Piles in Soft Soils” Stefan Vogt, Zentrum Geotechnik, Technical University at Munich, Germany •Micropile Installation at Czar Palace, Russia Hon. Prof. Wolfgang Brunner, Bauer Spezialtiefbau Gmbh, Germany Technical Session 2: Design and QA/QC and Monitoring Chair: Allen Cadden, USA •Reliability based design of high capacity micropiles, Yoshinori Otani, Hirose & Co., Ltd. Japan •What we have learned about micropile behavior from field instrumentation, Daniela Ramirez, Isherwood Geostructural Engineers, Canada •An instrumented micropile cap test – micropile top plates: are they necessary? Peter Sheffield and Xian-Xing Li Peter Sheffield & Associates Ltd., Canada, and Daniela Ramirez, Isherwood Geostructural Engineers, Canada - paper presented by Nadir Ansari, Isherwood Geostructural Engineers, Canada •The good, the bad and the ugly – from the U.K. Paul Woodfield and Mark Hinton, Branlow Ltd., U.K. Technical Session 3: Full Scale Load Testing Chair: Jouko Lehtonen, Finland •Class I and II micropiles with hollow bar reinforcement: Load tests and performance measurements, Jerold Bishop, Geotechnical Design Services, Inc., USA, Horst Aschenbroich, Contech-Systems Ltd., Canada, and Bret DeBernardi Geotechnical Design Services Inc., USA •Load test of high capacity micropiles on site Masao Sagara, Fujita Corporation, Japan •Observations from the instrumentation of micropiled and tiedback reticulated grid Walter Vanderpool, Terracon Consultants, USA •Large-scale physical modelling of earth slopes stabilized with micropiles A.Z. Boeckmann University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, J.J. Deeken, Black and Veatch, USA, and Prof. Erik Loehr, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Technical Session 4: Advances in Equipment, Techniques, and Materials Chair: Horst Aschenbroich, Canada •Sonic drilling offers quality control and non-destructive advantages to geotechnical drilling on sensitive infrastructure sites John Davis, Boart Longyear Company, USA •Design guide for TITAN micropile heads Ernst Ischebeck, Friedr. Ischebeck GmbH, Germany •Development and testing of a coaxial strain monitor for self-boring micropiles Robert Taylor, RST Instruments, Ltd., Canada •Micropiles using higher steel grades – spalling of the grout cover, Florian Stützel, Dywidag-Systems International GmbH, Germany Technical Session 5: Case Histories Chair: Paul Woodfield, U.K. •When is enough enough? SR 33 micropiles for bridge stabilization, Allen Cadden, Schnabel Engineering, USA •Foundation improvement of historic buildings by micropiles, Museum Island, Berlin and St. Kolumba, Cologne Klaus Dietz, Dietz Geotechnik Consult GmbH and André Schürmann, Stump Spezialtiefbau GmbH, Germany •MACROPILESTM – Ultra-high capacity micropiles for foundation support, John Wolosick, Joseph A. Pastore and Michael L. Grant, Hayward Baker, Inc., USA •The use of micropiles to reinforce old walls and stabilize steep slopes in Quedlinburg, Germany Heinz Staudt, Staudt Planungsgesellschaft mbH, Germany Technical Session 6: Advances in Research and Development Chair: Prof. Masaru Hoshiya, Japan •Micropile load transfer to concrete structures – bond stress research program report Dr. Jesús Gómez and Allen Cadden, Schnabel Engineering, USA •FEM simulation of the micropile footing under vertical and horizontal loads Shingo Morimasa, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan •Influence of initial deflection on the bearing capacity for micropiles, Dr. Hakan Bredenberg, Bredenberg Teknik, Sweden •Further Updates of the International List of References for Micropiles, Dr. Thomas Herbst, Germany •MIDA (Micropile Database) Dr. Jouko Lehtonen, Ville Hyyppä, and Jussi Hattara, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland •Munich Sightseeing Presentation Dr. Thomas Herbst, Germany Technical Session 7: Implementation, Education, Codes and Standards Chair: Dr. Jesús Gómez, USA/Venezuela •The first national micropile code in Finland Hannu Jokiniemi,Rautaruukki, Ruukki Construction, Finland •35 years of applications of micropiles in Austria Manfred Fross, Gruppe Wasser ZT-GmbH, Austria •The evolution of micropiles in America Peter Nicholson, Nicholson Consulting Company, USA and David Pinyot, Geotechnical and Construction Management, USA •Micropiles and the FHWA: 30 years of implementation Scott Anderson and Barry Siel, Federal Highway Administration, USA •An education in micropiles: The expansion of the market in North America Dr. Donald Bruce, Geosystems, L.P., USA •ADSC Geo3 Field Day Kerry Allen, DSI-Lang Geotech, USA •Micropile Installation School (AMPIS) John Davis, Boart Longyear Company, USA