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New website design & features!
If you have
not visited the Geoengineer website the last couple of months, you need to
drop by and the main reason is that most of the website has been
significantly renovated, with better structure and design that will make
navigation easier, more productive and entertaining. Some sections are still
under renovation, but the new online geoengineering library, the new photo
gallery, the new free geo-software listing are ready to serve you.
Also we recently established the "Geoengineering Bulletin Boards and
Forums". Those are free and host boards on "Geoengineering
News", "Geoengineering Jobs" and "Geoengineering
Software". These forums are much needed based on your feedback. I invite
you to join and read the latest geo news and of course submit related
postings. Feel free to recommend new boards if you feel that there is a need
for them.
This newsletter brings you additional useful information, such as the
establishment of a geo risk and reliability website by Prof. K.K. Phoon
within the Geoengineer website, a much requested top 10 list of publications
on the pressuremeter by Prof. J.-L. Briaud as well as many more interesting
publications, photos and other resources. Enjoy!
The editor
VIRTUAL GEOTECHNICS
Session
emphasizing in presenting through photos topics of the geotechnical practice:
· No updates this time
Visit the Virtual Geotechnics session
GEOENGINEERING PHOTO GALLERY
Collection of
photos classified in geo-categories. Currently includes 113 photos.
New additions:
· New photos on foundations, compaction and consolidation, in-situ testing
methods, ground modification, deep excavations by Prof. Siva Sivakugan and
Dr. Costas Sachpazis
Visit the Geoengineering Photo Gallery
EDUCATIONAL HYPERLINKS AND DATA
This session
provides hyperlinks to web pages with entirely educational content on
specific topics or data useful to researchers.
New additions:
· No updates
Visit the Educational Hyperlinks and data session
ONLINE GEOENGINEERING LIBRARY
A collection
of free papers and books available on the internet.
New additions:
· Hazus publications available by FEMA. (look at the risk & reliability
section)
· National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy -- A Framework
for Loss Reduction, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1244 Online Version 1.0.
Available by USGS. (look at the risk & reliability section)
· Sardinia 99 Conference Proceedings- All papers of this
conference are available for free in pdf format. (look at the environmental
geotechnics section)
· Collection of pdf documents on design and construction of
levees and embankments, by the US Army Corps of Engineers-Kansas City
District-Local Protection Section. (look at dams & embankments section)
· Uzielli, M. (2004), "Variability of stress-normalized CPT measurements
and application to seismic liquefaction initiation assessment", PhD
dissertation at the University of Florence, Italy (in geotechnical earthquake
section and geotechnical investigations section).
· Uzielli, M. (2000). "Finite-element analysis of soil-structure
interaction phenomena for the church of S. Filippo in Nocera Umbra, Italy,
during the first earthquake of September 26, 1997." Tesi di Laurea
(Bachelor's Thesis) at the University of Florence, Italy. In Italian. (in
geotechnical earthquake section).
Visit the Online Geoengineering Library
TOP 10 PAPERS ON GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
The purpose of
this session is to provide to interested engineers a starting point of the
best publications on a specific topic. Chosen qualified and well-known
Professors or engineers are invited to propose the best 10 papers in a
specific field of their expertice.
Updates:
. Top ten papers on the Pressuremeter, by Professor Jean-Louis Briaud,
Professor and Holder of the Buchanan Chair, Department of Civil Engineering,
Texas A&M University.
Visit the Top 10 Papers On Geotechnical Engineering
session
FREE GEOENGINEERING SOFTWARE LISTING
A Collection
of free programs, excel spreadsheets and online applications in
Geoengineering.
Updates:
. Wedge Failure Analysis, Analyzes wedge failures in rock slopes (go to the
slope stability section)
. Plane Failure Analysis, Analyzes planar failures in rock slopes (go to the
slope stability section).
Visit the Free Geoengineering Software Listing
HISTORY OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Session
providing information regarding the history of geotechnical engineering,
important historical projects and distinguished individuals in our field.
Updates:
No updates this time
Visit the session on history of geotechnical engineering
SEARCH OUR SITE
Looking for
resources on a specific topic? Use the Geoengineer search engine to find what
you are looking for.
Click here to visit the Geoengineer Search engine
CONTRIBUTORS
Special thanks
to:
· Briaud, Jean-Louis, PhD, P.E. Professor and Holder of the Buchanan Chair,
Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
· Phoon, Kok Kwang, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore,
Singapore.
· Sachpazis, C., PhD, Geodomisi Ltd, Greece.
· Sivakugan, Siva, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, School
of Engineering, James Cook University, Australia.
· Tokimatsu, Kohji, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
· Uzielli, Marco, Dr., University of Florence, Italy
List of contributors
GEOENGINEERING EVENTS
See our
listing for geotech events and send us an e-mail to inform us about new ones.
. Young Engineers Conference on earthquake engineering, the
University of Bath, hosted by the Society for Earthquake and Civil
Engineering Dynamics, March 2005.
. Short continuing education course on Geotechnical Instrumentation for field
measurements, March 13-15, 2005, Belleview Biltmore, Clearwater, Florida. The
Course Director is John Dunnicliff.
. International Conference on Problematic Soils - GEOPROB2005, May
25-27, 2005 - Eastern Mediterranean University.
See listing
GEO RISK AND RELIABILITY
Professor K.K.
Phoon has established within the Geoengineer website a new website on
geotechnical risk and reliability. The site intends to provide a forum for
cross fertilization of ideas between researchers/practitioners and to foster
closer ties between geotechnical and structural reliability.
Visit the geo risk and reliability website
GEOENGINEERING JOURNALS
Links to journals
in the Geoengineering field.
New updates:
. Soils and Foundations, published by the Japanese Geotechnical Society
Visit the Geoengineering Journals
GEOENGINEERING BULLETIN BOARDS & FORUMS
This new
session intends to help in the enhancement of geoengineering information
circulation and communication. Currently boards and forums exist on
"Geoengineering News", "Job Opportunites" and,
"Geoengineering Software". If you would like to recommend a new
forum, contact us. You can open an account for free to post an announcement.
Visit the Bulletin Boards and Forums
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Date: October 2004
Issue #15
Contents
EDITORIAL
VIRTUAL GEOTECHNICS
About the Geoengineer
Newsletter
GEOENGINEERING PHOTO
GALLERY
EDUCATIONAL HYPERLINKS
AND DATA
ONLINE GEOENGINEERING
LIBRARY
TOP 10 PAPERS ON
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
FREE GEO SOFTWARE
HISTORY OF GEOTECHNICAL
ENGINEERING
SEARCH OUR SITE
CONTRIBUTORS
GEOENGINEERING EVENTS
About the Geoengineer
Website
Become a CONTRIBUTOR
Geo Risk &
Reliability website
Geo-Journals
Geo News
Geo Job Market
Bulletin Boards &
Forums
About the Geoengineer Newsletter
The
Geoengineer Newsletter is distributed for free to its subscribed members and
is also sent to various civil/geotechnical engineering newsgroups. Currently
there are 2678 individually subscribed members.
About the Geoengineer Website
The
Geoengineer website is a database of free, useful, geoengineering
information. Our mission is to guide the geoengineering visitor to find
resources useful to his/her work at no cost. To achieve that we encourage all
engineers to contribute by informing us about available resources
More information on the Geooengineer website
Become a CONTRIBUTOR
The
Geoengineer website counts on the contributions of its visitors to keep
growing and become more useful. Are you aware of resources that are not
listed on the website? Do you have personal material that you would like to
make available? You have comments about the website? Do you have ideas that
could contribute in our Profession and you need help in realizing them?
Please drop us an e-mail. We will be very interested to hear about it. Send
us an e-mail at: zekkos@geoengineer.org or reply to this newsletter.
GEOENGINEERING NEWS
Read/Post
latest news in Geoengineering.
Geo-news here
GEO JOB MARKET
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Geoengineering Job Opportunities for free. Go to Geo-Job Market
GEO-SOFTWARE QUESTIONS
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question on Geoengineering Software? Here is the place to ask. Go to Geo-software questions
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