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Title: Determination of required pile lengths combined Morganza floodway control structure
Authors: United States. Mississippi River Commission
U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
Keywords: Morganza Floodway
Plies
Borings
Sands
Publisher: U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Description: Technical memorandum
Introduction: This report contains the results of analysis of additional borings made at the site of the combined Morganza Floodway control structure. This additional study vas authorized in the lst Endorsement to a letter from the Waterways Experiment Station to the President, Mississippi River Commission, subject "Driving of Piles 1 Combined Morganza Control Structure," dated 8 February 1950, to determine definitely the top of the sand stratum into which the piles are to be driven. The general foundation conditions and results of the over-all boring program were given in Waterways Experiment Station Technical Memorandum No. 3-278, "Combined Morganza Floodway Control Structure, Texas and Pacific Railroad and Louisiana State Highway No. 30, Soils Investigation," cited May 1949. The results of the pile tests performed at the site ere described in Waterways Experiment Station Technical. Memorandum No. 3-308, "Pile Loading Tests, Combined Morganza Floodway Control Structure” dated January 1950. This report covers only the additional study, and reference should be made to the two above-mentioned reports for complete detailed 1ntormat1on on the previous investigations.
Rights: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11681/21220
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