DFI ACTIVITIES Just Two Months Away Planning is in full swing for SuperPile ’17, taking place from June 14-16, 2017, just west of San Diego in Coronado, Calif. The conference, being held in partnership with ADSC, highlights best practices for project safety from design through construction, as well as topics relevant to the Southern California area. Presentations will be delivered about the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, driven piles, ground improvement, helical piles and tiebacks, marine foundations, micropiles, testing and evaluation of foundation systems, and seismic and lateral loads. On Wednesday, June 14, DFI Technical Committees are meeting to discuss progress on various committee projects. The Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee is hosting an evening lecture followed by a reception. Proceeds benefit the DFI Educational Trust Women in Deep Foundations Fund. On Thursday, June 15, the plenary (combined) session features presentations on a variety of technical topics. On Friday, June 16, three parallel sessions provide attendees the option to choose presen- tations of interest. Invited and selected presentations will highlight advancements, innovations and challenges in design and construction of deep foundations, particularly related to piling solutions and safety practices. During the event, the Exhibit Hall features the products and services of equipment, material and instrumentation suppliers, contractors, engineers and other vendors. Osterberg Lecturer DFI’s 2017 Osterberg Memorial Lecture opens the conference on Thursday, June 15. Richard J. Finno, P.E., Ph.D., D.GE, civil engineering profes- sor at Northwestern University, has been selected as this year’s lecturer. “In Professor Osterberg’s Terzaghi Lecture titled Necessary Redundancy in Geotechnical Engineering, he discussed the causes of geotechnical engineering failures and presented eight cases to illustrate his points,” says Finno. “In keeping with his legacy, my lecture, Lessons (Re)learned from Geotechnical Failures, presents several geotechnical failures. These case studies are related to earth retaining structures and foundations, two areas for which Professor Osterberg had a keen interest. These cases will illustrate failures related to both serviceability and stability issues.” Dr. Finno has conducted research in the areas of full-scale performance of deep excavations and tunnels, adaptive management methods in geotechnical engineering, numerical analysis, inverse analysis techniques, failure processes in soil, small strain behavior of clays and nondestructive testing of deep foundations. He is the author or co-author of 170 peer- reviewed technical papers and 20 technical reports. Dr. Finno’s work has been recognized with several awards from ASCE, including the Karl Terzaghi Award and the Harry Schnabel Jr. Award. He has served as a consultant on a wide variety of projects related to retention systems, tunnels, shafts and foundations. His profound knowledge of his subject matter makes him a quintessential Osterberg lecturer. The lecture was established in honor of Dr. Jorj O. Osterberg to recognize innova- tions in deep foundations construction related to engineering design, testing or education, and is supported by DFI Corporate Member Loadtest, Inc. See the following two pages for the SuperPile ’17 Schedule at a Glance DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAR/APR 2017 • 23
