Cambridge-Giken Collaborative Working on Pile-soil Interaction Mechanisms

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The Cambridge Giken collaborative research was started in 1994, based on the strong awareness of Mr. Akio Kitamura, President of Giken, Ltd., on the issues related to construction. Every summer two students stay in Kochi, Japan, to carry out field and model tests using press-in machines and other experimental facilities in Giken, so that they can learn this technology by experience. This paper introduces an outline of the summer projects conducted in Kochi each year, and summarizes some research findings on the performance of a pressed-in pile the estimation of subsurface information from piling data and the performance of a sheet pile wall.