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
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• 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
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• What we have learned about micropile behavior from field instrumentation, Daniela Ramirez, Isherwood Geostructural Engineers, Canada
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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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

< p>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