California Soil Nail Committee 

Welcome to the in-official Home of the California Soil Nail Committee (CASNC). This site is intended to be  a communication and discussion forum for the development of "Guideline Specifications for Permanent Soil Nails".

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• Comments to the Soil Nail Committee Guidelines
  Curt A. Moore, C&M Manufacturing Co
  June 26, 2001
  Comments010626 (49 kByte pdf-File)
  

• Posttensioned SoilNails
  Pirooz Barar, PB & A
  May 3, 2001
  Posttensioned (303 kByte pdf-File)
   
• Soil Nail Committee Guidelines
  Revisions by Josef Alter, Williams Form Engineering
  April 20, 2001
  Guidelines (213 kByte pdf-File)
   
• Committee Guidelines Chapter 5: Soil Nail Design
  Revisions by Michael Snow, Golder Associates, Inc.
  April 17, 2001
  Soil Nail Design rev 1 (99 kByte pdf-4 file)
   
• Appendix E: Seismic Stability of Soil Nail Walls
  John Barneich, GeoPentech
  March 14, 2001
  Appendix-E (843 kByte pdf-4 File)
  (please be patient; it might take a while to load)
   
• Soil Nail Drawings, prepared by Lucian Bogdan (DSI)
  February 2, 2001
  Drawing 1 of 4 (146 Kbytes pdf-file)
  Drawing 2 of 4 (151 Kbytes pdf-file)
  Drawing 3 of 4 (134 Kbytes pdf-file)
  Drawing 4 of 4 (91 Kbytes pdf-file)
   
• Soil Nail Committee Guidelines
  August 23, 2000
  pdf 4 Version

• Soil Nail Committee Guidelines, Comments from Dave Slater
  July 11, 2000 (posted by Dave Slater)
  pdf 3 Version          Word 2000 Version

• Soil Nail Committee Corrosion Information
  June 14, 2000 (posted by Josef Alter)
  Online Version          Word 2000 Version

• Soil Nail Committee Guidelines
  Draft May 9, 2000.
  Online Version             Word 2000 Version (Download)