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, Ii , . MICHAEL K. MUCHARD, P.E. Principal Geotechnical Engineer ~ .., . .., EDUCA TION AND REGISTRATIONS . B.S.C.E.. University of South Florida 1990. Geotechnical Engineering. Course work towards M.S.C.E.. University of South Florida, Geotechnical Engineering. Florida Registered Professional Engineer Number 49290 South Carolina Rcgistered Professional Engineer Number 18474 North Carolina Registered Professional Engineer Number 23366 -, . .., EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALTIES . . Mr. Muchard is a partner and co-founder of Applied Foundation Testing. Inc. He has 19 years of geotechnical engineering and heavy civil construction expericnce coupled with 10 years offull spectrum business management. As Principal Engineer and Owner of Applied Foundation Testing, Mr. Muchard has been the responsible engineer on hundreds of foundation testing projects over the past 10 years. These projects include various DOT, government and private clients all over the continental United States, Canada, South America, and the Caribbean. He has extensive experience and is considered an expert in ST A TNAMICTM, dynamic. and Static load testing methods as well as instrumentation and data acquisition. Having perfonned over 3000 load tests on over 400 projects involving driven piles and drilled shalts has resulted in his being selected for very special and challenging deep foundation projects. This experience has allowed him to playa key role in the pioneering of new technologies that have had positive influence on the foundation industry such a<; ST ATNAMIC~) Load Testing. Smartpile<(l wireless dynamic pile testing. and Post Grouted Drilled Shalts. ., . .., . ., r'1 . He specializes in applications of foundation load testing methodologies and geotechnical instrumentation including: STA TNAMICTM load testing to 5.000 tons. Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA). TNO Foundation Pile Diagnostic System (TNO-FpDS). Wave Equation Analysis using TNOW A VE and GRL WEAP. Signal Matching Analysis with TNODLT and CApW AP. Automated Static Load Testing. Crosshole Sonic Logging (CSL). Tomographic Analysis, Sonic Integrity Testing (SIT). Shalt Inspection Device (Mini-SID). SpT hammer energy measurements. hammer radar measurements. vibration measurements. instrumentation manufacture, field installation and data acquisition systems including the MEGADAC. Liberty, and MICRO-I O. Also SmartPile™ Embedded Data Collectors (Wireless dynanlic pile testing). Post Grouted Drilled Shafts design and implementation. -, . . Mr. Muchard's engineering practice is complemented by his active role in education and sharing oftechnologies with colleagues. Mike is active in conferences and has made numerous lectures and technical presentations on topics of his specialties. He has also authored numerous technical articles and fonnal engineering papers in the saIne. His widespread practice on high visibility projects has lead to his national recognition in this field. ., ., . MAJOR AND UNIQUE PROJECTS ., LA _ I Irnllrovrnents. Golden Meadow and Fourchon. Louisiana. LADOT- Driven Pile foundation testing services for 17 mile low level bridge. Included a total of 16 load test piles that were strain instrumented at casting yard. Dyna/Ilic tested. ST A TNA MICTM load tested and static load tested. Test piles included: 54" cylinder piles. 30" PSC. 24" PSC. 16" PSc. a/ld 30" Pipe Piles. Construction phase testing included STATNAAflCTM load testing of? more piles and PDA testing of approximately 800 production piles. .., . . Audubon Bridl!:e Proiect. St. FrancisviIIe/New Roads. Louisiana LADOTD - Cable stay bridge supported on 100 post grouted drilled shafts with 8 foot diameter and lengths up to 225 feet. A Iso a total of 6 approach bridges supported on prestressed concrete piles. Responsible AFT Engineer for: Post Grouting of all drilled shafts. CSL testing and concrete integrity analysis on all shafts. Mini-SID inspection of test shaft. On approach bridges. performed 15 automated static load tests and PDA testing of over 150 test piles. ,.., . ..., ~ New River Bridl!:e, Fort Lauderdale. FDOT. New 4.000 foot rail bridge supported on 40 non-redundant drilled shafts with 10 foot diameter. Responsible engineer for CSL testing and concrete integrity analysis on all shafts, and SID inspection of bottom of each shaft. Perfonned instrumented post grouting on two production shafts as part of VE proposal. In addition, perfonned automated static load testing of micro-piles. . . 11602 Perpetual Drive 0 Odessa, Florida 33556 0 Phone: (727) 376-5040 0 Fax: (727) 376-5018 .., .