Resumen de "Baku Bayil Yard Site" soil improvement geotechnical works
Bayil Yard is located to the south of Baku—Azerbaijan and is allocated as a fabrication yard for top portion of oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. The owner is AIOC who is a consortium founded for Azerbaijan Oil Contracts led by BP (British Petroleum). For the heavy cranes working on this site a soil improvement project was realized to increase the bearing capacity. Two different loads were considered. One area would be exposed to cranes which apply a maximum load of 600 kPa through their crawlers. A second area was for cranes which apply at the maximum a load of 200 kPa through their crawlers. For the 600 kPa area a stone column and a geogrid reinforced top layer was implemented. For the 200 kPa area only a geogrid reinforced layer was used. The stone columns also helped eliminate the liquefaction risk at this area.
