Liquefaction and bridge piles Modern bridges are supported by large columns called piles that are driven deep into the ground. Liquefaction, which is the loss of soil strength due to the development ...

Bridges under pressure Liquefaction-induced downdrag on pile foundations data wins 2022 DesignSafe Dataset Award University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center ...

The bridges in Dr. Mahmoud’s database include 1,357 steel bridges in Oklahoma and 575 bridges in North Dakota, among them a 25-year-old bridge over the North Branch Goose River in Traill County ...

The IBR claims that liquefaction will cause the I-5 Bridge to fail, similar to the Niigata Bridge in Japan, which had only nine 52-foot-long, widely spaced piles per pier.

At 309 major bridges on navigable waterways in the United States, inspections in recent years have found protection systems around bridge foundations that were deteriorating, potentially outdated ...