Case studies
SKA Project, South Africa
Repute has been used by
Aurecon for
the pile design of the satellite dish structures for the
Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
Project, to be located in the Karoo desert near Carnarvon in South Africa.
The $1.5-billion SKA programme is one of the most important science projects
of the 21st century and will address fundamental unanswered questions about
our Universe including how the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big
Bang, how galaxies have evolved since then, the role of magnetism in the
cosmos, the nature of gravity, and the search for life beyond Earth.
Pile-group analyses using Repute were carried out in order to design the pile foundations for the individual dish structures and meet a very stringent rotational limit of 5 arc seconds (= 0.0014 degrees) under the dishes' operational conditions.
Further details on the pile design may be found in the paper by Barnard & Vorster "Pile settlement design using continuous surface wave testing and modulus degradation" (Proc. 37th DFI Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, Houston, TX, USA, October 2012, pp. 57-63).
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