Mr. Horris Nangulama

Mr. Horris Nangulama

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Horris Kuchilunda Nangulama

After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Malawi, The Polytechnic in 2017, Horris K. Nangulama worked for almost a year (from January 2018 – September, 2018) as an infrastructural and quality assurance engineer at Central East Afri...

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Deformation Control Monitoring of Basement Excavation at Field Construction Site: A Case of Hydraulic Servo Steel Enhancement Geotechnology

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Abstract
This study presents two field cases of deep excavation using the hydraulic servo geotechnology as an enhancement to the lateral
support. The first excavation process was preceded with numerical simulation to investigate the deformation of excavation pit with and without servo geotechnology. Optimised axial loading capacities from the numerical simulation were adopted at the actual excavation site. On the second excavation site, servo geotechnology was applied directly on the excavation process during actual construction without prior numerical simulation. The results showed that the servo steel support geotechnology restrained above 70% of lateral displacements of the excavated walls, and ground surface influence zone settlements were kept within the acceptable
warning limits. Prior application of the numerical simulation before field excavation optimised axial loads and kept the deformation caused by excavation within project limits. The numerical simulation of servo geotechnology deformation control capacity for deep excavation projects is validated, and this study provides a practical and significant reference on similar projects.
Year of Publication
2022
Journal Name
Advances in Civil Engineering
Volume
2022
Issue
Article ID 6234581
Page Numbers
19 pages
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