Measurement and Use of Pile Set-Up in Design and Construction of the 1-480 Valley View Bridge, Cleveland OH

摘要

The I-480 Valley View Bridge project includes the design and construction of a 4150-foot long, 200-foot-tall, 15-span steel girder interstate highway bridge over the Cuyahoga River Valley near Cleveland, Ohio. The DB team incorporated pile setup through a full-scale pile test program for twelve foundations overlying weak to moderate soil deposits. The resulting design featured high capacities, shorter drive lengths, fewer piles, and smaller pile caps. Depth-variable driving criteria were developed for production driving.