Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Re: Ground improvement - Stone columns

That sounds a bit like the geopier stuff a company here in the states is
using. I don't know any real details, but a google search turned up
this: http://www.farrellinc.com/geopier-faq.htm

Jordan

Kirtesh Gandhi wrote:
> For one of our project in Gulf we have been asked to raise the soil
> bearing capacity by improving ground using stone columns. However we
> are not very sure of its actual performance at site.
>
> Can anyone focus on it?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>

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