ABSTRACT

As a part of a motorway project in Croatia, a junction with two viaducts and one bridge was constructed in the Neretva river delta. The total of 29 piers is built on open-ended steel pipe piles (six for each pier), 40 meters long, with the diameter of 120 cm, which were vibratory driven into the ground.The soil in the alluvial river delta is mostly high and low plasticity silty clay.