Geotechnical Construction and Testing of Piling Foundations on Problematic Soils of Kazakhstan
Abstract
- Design of piling foundations in difficult soils requires the investigation of pile behavior by using dynamic, static, O-cell, and integrity piling tests
- Soil/pile interaction facilitate the better understanding of the behavior of different types of piles driven in the problematic soils
- Recommendations for determining the bearing capacity and settlements of driven and bored piles in problematical soils of Kazakhstan
Speaker
Prof. Askar Zhussupbekov
Prof. Askar is a Professor in Department of Civil Engineering at the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan. He has a Doctor of Technical Sciences Degree. He is President of Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society and Chair of TC305 (ISSMGE). The main field of expertise of Prof. Askar is geotechnical engineering (piling and deep foundations), geomonitoring, undermining soil ground, disaster prevention and reduction, in situ testing. He carries out theoretical and experimental research, as well as consulting work for civil and geotechnical projects. He was the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and also first vice-rector of Karaganda State Industrial University. In 2000, he joined Eurasian National University (ENU), Astana, Kazakhstan as Professor and was visiting Professor of Columbia University, New York (USA) He is a core member of TC305 “Geotechnical Infrastructure of Mega cities and new capitals. He is also active member of TC-4, ATC-3, ATC-19, RSSMGE, IALT, GI, DGGS and IGS. He has been supervised more than 30 Dr. Ph. dissertations and 6 Dr. Engineering dissertations.He has published more then 330 scientific papers including 3 books on Geotechnical Engineering.