DFI 2015 Young Professor Paper Competition Winner Announced
First Place Paper Covers Inversion Approach to Pile Load Transfer
Aaron S. Bradshaw, from University of Rhode Island, is the winner of this year’s Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust Young Professor Paper Competition.
His paper, “Pile Load Transfer from Static Loading Test Inversions,” presents an inversion approach to estimate the distribution of load at depth in a deep foundation from the load-movement curve measured at the head. The method may be useful in situations where static loading tests have been performed on test piles that are not instrumented with strain gages or telltales, or the instrumentation data are unreliable.