A damaged pier at McNears Beach Park in Marin, California, was repaired by replacing portions with new structure. The new structure was designed to meet current seismic design criteria. This required a high performance pile-to-pile cap connection. The high performance connection was designed using a fiber reinforced bearing pad, isolating the sides of the embedded pile, and unbonding the dowels…
Author: E Soderberg
Feroze Vazifdar’s Firsthand Account of the Earthquake in Chile
The drive into San Antonio took almost two hours, with stop and go traffic over several damaged bridges. Along the way we noticed a few damaged canopies, one major landslide, and damage to a newly built casino. San Antonio is a very quaint town with only a few high-rise structures. A five-story building with a lower soft story suffered significant…