Helical Pile Overview
1 Hour
NCSEA Provider Number – 230831A
Meet Your Instructor
Moncef Souissi, PH D
Civil Engineering Ph.D. from Colorado State University, provides engineering education.
Moncef Souissi, a Civil Engineer with a PhD from Colorado State University, joined Cantsink after seven years of working as an ICC building products field tester for the IAS lab. He also served as a research assistant, teaching assistant, and instructor at CSU. Fluent in three languages, he is experienced in concrete and foundation design. He has taught Soil Mechanics, Mechanics of Material, Statics and Material Testing, and published a paper on helical pile capacity. He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota and his M.S. degree from CSU.
Learning Objective
Definition - AC358
Soil Capacity
Benefits of Helical Piles
Individual Bearing Plate Method
Brief History of Helical Piles
Cylindrical Shear
Structural Capacity of Helical Piles
Load Testing
Capacity Torque Correlation
New Study and Basic Equation