Issue: #2

Editor: Dimitris P. Zeccos

Date: July 2001

VIRTUAL GEOTECHNICS

http://www.geocities.com/geotechnical_engineer/virge.htm

In the Engineering area the "visual" factor is very important. Photos, diagrams and maps play an important role in the understanding of a matter. In this feature, some cases, which are related with the Geotechnical Engineering, are presented via photos.

No updates since the last Newsletter.

LEARN-BY-HYPERLINKS

http://www.geocities.com/geotechnical_engineer/geolearnhy.htm

The Learn-by-Hyperlinks are hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. They are hyperlinks to reports, abstracts, articles or any other material which purpose is to teach or inform students or professional engineers on specific subjects. Follow the link above to see the list of web pages.

Updates:

The elastic rebound theory. What it is, and a really interesting animation. Also, from the USGS site a photo of the deformation of a fence.

How Quicksand Works – A short, interesting article by How stuff works.

ONLINE FREE PAPERS AND BOOKS

http://www.geocities.com/geotechnical_engineer/GEObooks.htm

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

Updates:

Elementary Soil Mechanics, by Professor M. Kavvadas, National Technical University of Athens, Department of Civil Engineering, and available in .pdf format in Greek language only.

Bearing Capacity of Soils, Engineering Design Manual (EM 1110-1-1905), available by the US Army Corps of Engineers (1992).

Notes in design of tunnels, by Professor M. Kavvadas, National Technical University of Athens, Department of Civil Engineering, and available in .pdf format in Greek language only.

Tunnels and Shafts in Rock. Engineering Design Manual (EM 1110-2-2901), available from the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Elementary Envrironmental Geotechnics, by Professor M. Kavvadas, National Technical University of Athens, Department of Civil Engineering, and available in .pdf format in Greek language only.

An excellent resource of papers on Ground motion , available by Stanford University.

Performance of Soil Improvement Techniques in Earthquakes, E.A. Hausler, N. Sitar. Paper presented to the Fourth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, March 26 - 31, 2001. In PDF format.

Investigation on Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls and Slopes During Ji-Ji Earthquake, H.I. Ling, D. Leshchinsky, N.S. Chou, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 21(4), 297-313, in PDF format

Papers in Autonomous Crack Monitoring. This site contains copies of selected papers on this new approach to control and monitoring of construction vibrations as well as access to operational sites where readers can observe actual day to day response of cracks. We are thankful to Professor C. Dowding for this contribution.

Papers of the Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) Symposium 2001. This site contains copies of selected papers from the 1994 Symposium and in September will contain the Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium. Press "2001 Symposium" to see the papers. Also coming will be links to active sites where structural response can be observed. The above link is for the papers of the 2001 Symposium, however if you search the site you may find more references. Special thanks to Professor C. Dowding for his contribution.

WEB APPLICATIONS

http://www.geocities.com/geotechnical_engineer/geoap.htm

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

No updates since the last Newsletter

DISCUSSION LISTS MAILBASES – NEWSGROUPS

http://www.geocities.com/geotechnical_engineer/geogroups.htm

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

The GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER GROUP

In order to ease the assistance and interaction among Geoengineers a Group has been founded. The “Geotechnical Engineer Group” already has more than 120 members. You can JOIN NOW for FREE! at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheGeotechnicalEngineer/join

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Professor Charles Dowding, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, for his contribution.

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