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
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
