"Baku Bayil Yard Site" soil improvement geotechnical works

• Autores: E. Guler, A. Gure, A.E. Çetin
• Localización: Bearing capacity of roads, railways and airfields: proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Champaign, Illinois, USA, June 29-July 2, 2009 / Erol Tutulumluer (dir.), Imad L. Al-Qadi (dir.), Vol. 1, 2009, ISBN 9780415804325, págs. 107-115
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bayil Yard is located to the south of Baku—Azerbaijan and is allocated as a fabrication yard for top portion of oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. The owner is AIOC who is a consortium founded for Azerbaijan Oil Contracts led by BP (British Petroleum). For the heavy cranes working on this site a soil improvement project was realized to increase the bearing capacity. Two different loads were considered. One area would be exposed to cranes which apply a maximum load of 600 kPa through their crawlers. A second area was for cranes which apply at the maximum a load of 200 kPa through their crawlers. For the 600 kPa area a stone column and a geogrid reinforced top layer was implemented. For the 200 kPa area only a geogrid reinforced layer was used. The stone columns also helped eliminate the liquefaction risk at this area.