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Pile Foundations as an Efficiently Developing Direction of Foundation Engineering

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A brief overview on the development of theory and practice in pile foundation engineering is presented, including the main construction solutions for piles and pile foundations, methods for their vertical and horizontal loading calculation, as well as trends in the development of principles informing their design.

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Translated from Osnovaniya, Fundamenty i Mekhanika Gruntov, No. 3, pp. 2-10, May-June, 2020.

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Gotman, A.L. Pile Foundations as an Efficiently Developing Direction of Foundation Engineering. Soil Mech Found Eng 57, 179–190 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11204-020-09654-3

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