The Geoengineer Newsletter #9

Editorial: 2000 members and growing...

With this newsletter we now exceed 2000 members of the newsletter. Thank you for your support. We hope you find the website a useful resource to your work. With your contributions the website will expand and will host more information and become more useful.

As always, this newsletter also has a wealth of different information. A series of books on Probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering are presented in the free books session. Links to two more wonderful Buchanan Lectures given by Professor Michael Duncan and Professor John Burland are provided also.The first part of a series of nice articles along with photos are presented on rockfill placement and compaction guidelines. To continue our list of the best papers we invited Professor Y.F. Dafalias to present the "Top Ten papers on Macroscopic Soil Plasticity Constitutive Modelling".

I would like again to thank all the contributors for providing useful information and resources.

I would like also to thank gINT software for their support to the Geoengineer Website. gINT has some unique discounts on their geotech software for academic institutions and students. I encourage you to click on the banner on this newsletter or in the main page of the website and see more information.

The editor

VIRTUAL GEOTECHNICS

http://www.geoengineer.org/virtual.html

Session with emphasis to various photos related to construction sites, geotechnical practice, case histories and labs.

Updates:

Summary of rockfill placement and compaction guidelines for mine structures. Part 1. by Allan J. Breitenbach, P.E., AB Engineering Inc. Littleton, Colorado, USA

GEOENGINEERING PHOTO GALLERY

http://www.geoengineer.org/gallery.html

Collection of photos related to various fields of geoengineering, that can be used for educational purposes or presentations or upon request for any other purpose.

EDUCATIONAL HYPERLINKS AND DATA

http://www.geoengineer.org/learnbyhy.html

These are hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index on specific topics or with data useful to other engineers.

Updates:

Earth Science World ImageBank Very nice photos of geology, rocks many other topics related to geology.
Soil Mechanics Laboratory, by Krishna R. Reddy, Ph.D., P.E., University of Illinois at Chicago. A nice collection of test procedures and descriptions in pdf format along with photos. Developed for CEMM 315

ONLINE FREE PAPERS AND BOOKS

http://www.geoengineer.org/books.html

A collection of papers and books which are available through the internet on Geotechnics are collected here.

Updates:

Modelling in Geotechnics, course notes by Prof. S. Springman, available by the ETH Zurich.
NRC report on Probabilistic reports in Geotechnical Engineering, 1995.
USACE report on "Engineering and Design - Introduction to Probability and Reliability Methods for use in Geotechnical Engineering", 1999, ETL 110-2-547.
Short course note on "Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering", Edited by Dr. Fenton, G.A..
USACE Report, ETL 1110-2-556 on Risk-Based Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering for Support of Planning Studies
The 6th Buchanan Lecture series, presented by John B. Burland (1998)The Enigma of the Leaning Tower of Pisa" . Available by the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A& M University.
The 7th Buchanan Lecture series, presented by J. M. Duncan (1999) "Factors of Safety and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering". Available by the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A& M University.
California Foundation Manual, Issued by Office of Structure Construction, July 1997.State of California Department of Transportation.

TOP 10 PAPERS ON GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

http://www.geoengineer.org/top10.html

Chosen qualified and well-known Professors or engineers are invited to propose the best 10 papers in a specific field of their expertice. The purpose of this session is to provide to any interested engineer or company a starting point of the best publications on a specific topic.

Updates:

Top Ten papers on Macroscopic Soil Plasticity Constitutive Modelling, by Professor Y.F. Dafalias, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis, CA, USA, and Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Hellas.

WEB APPLICATIONS

http://www.geoengineer.org/applications.htm

Collection of web applications, tools and programs in the Geotechnical Engineering field.

Slope Stability: Seismic Force - Design Calculator: This slope stability calculator utilizes a pseudo-static analysis to determine the factor of safety (FS) of a geosynthetic lined slope. Based on the paper by R. M. Koerner, and T-Y. Soong, (1998)

THIS ISSUE IS SPONSORED BY:

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Information regarding discussion lists, mailbases or newsgroups on the Geotechnical Engineering field.

In this session, links to various geotechnical engineering journals are provided.

This session will provide information regarding the history of geotechnical engineering, important historical projects and the individuals that advanced our knowledge in the field. Information may provided by this website or through links to other sites.

The GEOENGINEER GROUP

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See our listing for geotech events and send us an e-mail to inform us about new ones.

NEW CONTRIBUTORS!

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Amir, Joram M., CE, PhD, Piletest.com Limited London United Kingdom.
Breitenbach, Allan, J., P.E., AB Engineering Inc. Littleton, Colorado, USA.
Dafalias, Y.F., Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis, CA, USA, and Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Hellas.
Reddy Krishna, R. , Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mukesh!

and all our CONTRIBUTORS http://www.geoengineer.org/contributors.html

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The GEOENGINEER GROUP

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The Geoengineer website aims to provide useful educational information in the Geotechnical Engineering field. More information on our site can be found at: