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    Geoengineer.org Newsletter #24
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    October 2006

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    Online Geoengineering Library

    A collection of papers and books available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 130 different recources in 16 sections)

    New additions:

    R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, R. I. Abdelmalak, A. G. Athanasopoulos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, J.-L. Briaud, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, J. Cohen-Waeber, B. D. Collins, L. Ehrensing, D. Farber, M. Hanemann, L. F. Harder, K. S. Inkabi, A. M. Kammerer, D. Karadeniz, R.E. Kayen, R. E. S. Moss, J. Nicks, S. Nimmala, J. M. Pestana, J. Porter, K. Rhee, M. F. Riemer, K. Roberts, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, A. V. Govindasamy, X. Vera-Grunauer, J. E. Wartman, C. M. Watkins, E. Wenk Jr., and S. C. Yim, (2006), "Investigation of the performance of the New Orleans flood protection systems in hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, Report No.UCB/CCRM, 06/01, July 2006, University of California at Berkeley (In the Dams and Embankments Section).

    Dam Removal Success Stories, Final Report, co- published by American Rivers, Trout Unlimited, and Friends of the Earth (In the Dams and Embankments Section).

    J.-L. Briaud, H.-C. Chen, Y. Li, P. Nurtjahyo, J. Wang, Complex pier scour and contraction scour in cohesive soils, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, January 2003. (in the General Section)

    Athanasopoulos, A., Zekkos, D. (2006), Geoengineering, refereed journals and case histories: A survey, Geoengineer.org report GEO/01/06, September 2006. (in the General Section)

    A. Pecker, Enhanced seismic design of shallow foundations: example of the Rion Antirion Bridge, 4th Athenian Lecture on Geotechnical Engineering, 2006 (in the Foundations Section)

    Zekkos, D. P., Bray, J. D., Riemer, M. F. (2006), Shear modulus reduction and material damping relationships for Municipal Solid- Waste, Proceedings of the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA, Paper No. 1324 (in proceedings cd-rom) (in the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Section).

    Geotechnical and Stability Analyses for Ohio Waste Containment Facilities, Report, State of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (in the Geoenvironmental Engineering Section)

    J. D. Rogers, S. H. Figuers, Engineering Geologic Site Characterization of the Greater Oakland-Alameda Area,Alameda and San Francisco Counties, California, NSF report, 1991 (In the General Section).

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    The Virtual Geoengineer

    Session presenting, via photos and videos, topics of the geotechnical practice (currently 54 topics in 14 sections):

    Professor G.P.Tschebotarioff's slide series that includes 19 foundation performance case histories, available by the Dept. of Civil Engineering of Case Western Reserve University (in the Foundations Section)

    Video highlights from the plenary sessions of the 1906 Earthquake Conference in San Francisco (in the earthquake section).

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    Geoengineering Events

    Short course, Geotechnical Instrumentation for Field Measurements, March 18-20, 2007, Hilton Bayfront, St. Petersburg, Florida.

    The 3rd International Conference on Site Characterization, 1-4 April 2008, Taipei International Convention Center, Taiwan.

    4th International Symposium on Pre-Failure Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials and Symposium on Characterization and Behavior of Interfaces, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 21-24, 2008

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    Contributors

    Special thanks to:

    Popescu, Mihail,Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.

    Sandy Figuers, PhD, Norfleet Consultants, Livermore, CA, USA

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    Educational Geowebsites

    This session provides resources (webpages, powerpoints, online courses) with entirely educational content (currently 47 resources in 10 sections).
    New additions:

    PhysicalGeography.net is an interesting educational web portal (in the General Section).

    Structural Geology course website, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (in the General Section).

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    Geoengineering Journals Listing

    Links to journals in the Geoengineering field.
    New additions:

    Georisk Journal

    Geomechanics and Geoengineering

    Acta Geotechnika

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    Geoengineering, Case Histories and refereed journals: A survey
    New Geoengineer.org Report just released!

    The results of the survey that was announced to the members of the Geoengineer Newsletter in December 2005 have been analyzed and are summarized in this report. A total of 464 individuals from 74 countries participated in the survey and the results are very interesting!

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