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Editor's Note. The construction of large hydraulic structures on soft and yielding foundations, as is known, was accomplished for the first time in the Soviet Union and thereafter gained wide use. The utilization of large prairie rivers, the channels of which are composed of sedimentary rocks, gave rise to such construction. The river beds at estuaries are composed of increasingly thicker interbeds of weak materials on which it is ecnomically inexpedient to found massive structures. Hence, these portions of rivers, where the flows are generally the greatest and uncontrolled, went unutilized for energy production. The use of deep artificial foundations under these conditions could effectively solve this problem. Shell piles, single or in groups, driven in by vibration, as the base for the foundation slabs of structures have already proved themselves. One such reliable technical means could be screw piles on which, with appropriate design solutions, it is possible directly to found piers, but-tresses, and foundation slabs of large hydraulic structures, particularly spillway dams, power houses, and abutments of run-of-river hydroelectric schemes. In this case there would be no difficulties resulting from the presence of thick interbeds of soft ground directly under the bottom of the structures. The author of the article published below does not give any design solutions. However, he shows the practical prospects of the development and introduction into construction practice of screw piles used as deep foundation supports, which in tum opens up the possibility for the development of designs of retaining structures at the mouths of rivers having a thick bed of alluvium, to say nothing of a whole class of marine structures in which screw piles would play a decisive role. The designs of screw piles and the means of driving them are not without shortcomings, which, perhaps, will not be eliminated even in the case of the best engineering solution. However, they have a number of clear advantages and the problem of their suitability in construction will probably be solved upon comparing them with other types of deep artificial foundations as a result of selecting designs having maximum advantages with minimum shortcomings. The article of M. A. Ordelli makes it possible to analyze these problems and will probably give impetus to a new stage of technical progress in this direction.
Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo. No. 7, pp. 49–53, July, 1970.
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Ordelli, M.A. Possibilities of industrial manufacture and driving of large screw piles for transmitting heavy loads. Hydrotechnical Construction 4, 661–667 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02395951
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