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Southeastern Transportation Geotechnical Engineering Conference
 
 
GENERAL AGENDA
All Exhibits are located in Ballrooms C and D
*Spouse Agenda
All times are Central Daylight Time
Monday, October 8, 2007
2:00-4:30Registration
 
 
In front of
Ballrooms C & D
 
4:30-4:40KYTC Staff Meeting
 
Registration Desk
5:30-7:30Ice Breaker
Sponsored by FMSM Engineers

Sponsored by S&ME, Inc

 
Ballrooms C and D
7:30-9:30Social - Hospitality
 
Room 219
 
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
7:00-8:00Breakfast
Sponsored by Carmeuse

 
Ballrooms C and D
7:00-4:30Registration
 
 
In front of
Ballrooms C & D
 
8:00-8:25Keynote Address
Marcie Mathews, P.E.; Kentucky State Highway Engineer
 
Ballroom B
Session I, Tuesday Morning - Bart Asher, Moderator
8:30-8:55Sonar Calipering of Slurry Constructed Drilled Shafts Providing Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Deep Foundations
John Hayes; LOADTEST Inc.
 
Ballroom B
9:00-9:25Cold Weather Modification/Stabilization of In-Situ Soils
Tim McConnell, P.G.; Southeast Cement Association
 
Ballroom B
9:30-9:55LRFD Implementation – Kennedy Interchange
John Godfrey, Jr., P.E.; K.S. Ware & Associates, LLC
 
Ballroom B
10:00-10:25Break
Sponsored by American Engineers, Inc.

 
Ballrooms C and D
Session I, Tuesday Morning (continued) - Bart Asher, Moderator
10:30-10:55Ground Improvement for Infrastructure Development
Michael J. Marasa; Hayward Baker Inc.
 
Ballroom B
11:00-11:25Geotechnical Analyses Using the CPT/Kentucky Project
Ron Ebelhar, P.E.; H.C. Nutting / A Terracon Company
 
Ballroom B
11:30-11:55Developments in Mechanistic-Empirical Methods for
Pavement Design Using Geosynthetics

Bryan C. Gee, P.E.; Tensar International Corporation
 
Ballroom B
12:00-12:55Lunch
Sponsored by Horn and Associates, Inc

 
Ballrooms C and D
Session II, Tuesday Afternoon - Chris Slone, Moderator
1:00-1:25Hurricane-Related Slide on Blue Ridge Parkway
Don W. Dotson, P.E.; AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc.
 
Ballroom B
1:30-1:55Forty Years of Research in Retaining Walls, Bridge
Abutments, Open Bottom Box Culverts, Reinforced Soils, Landslides, & Rockfalls

Robert Barrett; Soil Nail Launcher, Inc.
 
Ballroom B
2:00-2:25CFA Pile Foundations - How Are They a Benefit to State DOT's?
George Webb, P.E., P.G.; H.C. Nutting / A Terracon Company
 
Ballroom B
2:30-2:55Break
Sponsored by Geobrugg North American

 
Ballrooms C and D
3:00-3:25Steve Lothspeich; Huesker, Inc.
 
Ballroom B
3:30-3:55When Seismic Design Really Governs - West Coast Lessons to East Coast Practice
Robert C. Bachus, Ph.D., P.E.; Geosyntec Consultants
 
Ballroom B
4:00-4:25Slope Stability – Landslide Information
Drew Andrews, Ph.D. P.G.; Kentucky Geological Survey
 
Ballroom B
4:00-5:30Demonstration on Kentucky Transporation Cabinet Database
and Kentucky Geological Survey Data System
Jerry Weisenfluh, Ph.D., P.G.; Kentucky Geological Survey
 
Room next to
Hospitality Suite
4:30-4:40KYTC Staff Meeting
 
 
Room 219
Hospitality Suite
5:00-9:30Social
Hosted by Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors

 
Room 219
 
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
7:00-8:00Breakfast
Sponsored by Wilbur Smith Associates

 
Ballrooms C and D
7:00-4:30Registration
 
 
In front of
Ballrooms C & D
Session III, Wednesday Morning - Darrin Beckett, Moderator
8:00-9:55LRFD Implementation Workshop
Jerry A. DiMaggio, P.E.; Federal Highway Administration
 
Ballroom B
10:00-10:25Break
Sponsored by K.S. Ware & Associate
 
Ballrooms C and D
10:30-11:25LRFD Implementation Workshop (continued)
 
Ballroom B
11:30-12:30Lunch
Sponsored by Contech Construction Products, Inc

 
Ballrooms C and D
Session IV, Wednesday Afternoon - Jason Wright, Moderator
12:30-12:55Analysis and Design of Piles for Slope Stabilization
Dan A. Brown, Ph.D., P.E.
Auburn University & Dan Brown and Associates, LLC
 
Ballroom B
1:00-1:25Experiences with Deep Foundations & Karst from the Smartfix 40 Project in Knoxville, Tennessee
James Vinson, P.E.; Wilbur Smith Associates
 
Ballroom B
1:30-1:55Back Analysis of Slope Failures to Design Slope Stabilizing Piles
Mihail E. Popescu, Ph.D., P.E., Eur. Ing.
Wang Engineering Inc. & Illinois Institute of Technology
 
Ballroom B
2:00-2:25Break
Sponsored by Florence & Hutcheson, Inc

 
Ballrooms C and D
2:30-2:55"Cream of the Crop" The Importance of A Good Driller
Larry Gibel, National Drilling Association
 
Ballroom B
3:00-3:25Construction and Testing of Drilled Shafts
for the Audubon Bridge, Louisiana

Dan A. Brown, Ph.D., P.E.
Auburn University & Dan Brown and Associates, LLC
 
Ballroom B
3:30-3:55Integrated Geophysical – Engineering Investigations to Mine Subsidence Mitigation Problems for Highway Projects
Kanaan Hanna; Zapata Engineering, Blackhawk Division
 
Ballroom B
4:00-4:25Field Trip Overview
 
Ballroom B
5:30-6:30Social
Sponsored by Qore Property Sciences
 
Ballrooms C & D
6:30-9:00Banquet
Sponsored by S&ME, Inc

 
Ballrooms C and D
 
Thursday, October 11, 2007
7:00-8:00Breakfast
Sponsored by Mt. Carmel Sand & Gravel

 
Ballrooms C and D
8:00-8:30Meet to Load Buses
 
Holiday Inn Lobby
9:30-11:30Mammoth Cave National Park
Historic Cave Tour - Two-Mile Walk
 
 
12:00-1:30Lunch
 
Split Tree BBQ
2:00-3:30National Corvette Museum Tour
 
 
3:30-4:00Load Buses for Return to Holiday Inn Lobby
 
 
4:15-4:25KYTC Staff Meeting
 
 
Room 219
Hospitality Suite
4:30-6:00Director's Meeting
 
Ballroom B
5:30-9:30Social – Hospitality
 
Room 219
 
Friday, October 12, 2007
7:00-8:00Breakfast
Sponsored by Central Mine Equipment Company

 
Ballroom B
Session V, Friday Morning - Erik Scott, Moderator
8:00-8:25Shallow Slope Failure Repair by Anchored Flexible Facing
Michael Valiquette, P.E.
North Carolina Department of Transportation
 
Ballroom B
8:30-9:25Soil Conditions for the Port of Miami Tunnel
Larry Jones, P.E.; Florida Department of Transportation
 
Ballroom B
9:30-10:25Accessing Geotechnical Reports & Finding other Geology Information on the Web & Taking that Information from IMS Maps to MicroStation and Arc Maps
Bill Broyles, P.E.; Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Jerry Weisenfluh, Ph.D., P.G.; Kentucky Geological Survey
John Hager; Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
 
Ballroom B
10:30-10:55Break
Sponsored by H.C. Nutting

 
Ballroom B
11:00-12:00Round Table Discussion
 
Ballroom B
12:00Conference Adjourns
 
 

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