@BOOK{NAP14574, author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Design Guidelines for Increasing the Lateral Resistance of Highway-Bridge Pile Foundations by Improving Weak Soils", doi = "10.17226/14574", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 697: Design Guidelines for Increasing the Lateral Resistance of Highway-Bridge Pile Foundations by Improving Weak Soils examines guidance for strengthening of soils to resist lateral forces on bridge pile foundations.The report presents computational methods for assessing soil-strengthening options using finite-element analysis of single piles and pile groups and a simplified approach employing commercially available software.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14574/design-guidelines-for-increasing-the-lateral-resistance-of-highway-bridge-pile-foundations-by-improving-weak-soils", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }