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Geoengineer.org Newsletter Issue #30

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June 2007


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Online Geoengineering Library

A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 428 different recources in 20 sections)

New additions:

Soil Mechanics

Engineer Manual (EM 1110-2-1906), 1970. Engineering and Design. Laboratory Soils Testing. Department of the Army. US Army Corps of Engineers, Office of the Chief of Engineers. Washington D.C.

Engineering Manual (EM 1110-1-1906), 1996. Engineering and Design. Soil Sampling. Department of the Army. US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C.

A.N. Schofield and C.P. Wroth, (1968). Critical State Soil Mechanics. McGraw-Hill, London.

Rock Mechanics

A. El. Bied, J. Sulem, F. Martineau, (2002). Microstructure of shear zones in Fontainebleau sandstone. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 39, 917-932, Elsevier Science Ltd.

M. Vogelhuber, G. Anagnostou, K. Kovari, (2004). The influence of pore water pressure on the mechanical behavior of squeezing rock. 3rd Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS) International Society for Rock Mechanics, Kyoto.

Foundation Design

J.S. Goldsworthy, M.B. Jaksa, W.S. Kaggwa, G.A. Fenton, D.V. Griffiths and H.G. Poulos, (2004). Cost of Foundation Failures due to limited site investigation. International conference on Structural and Foundation Failures, Singapore.

Dr. G. Geoffrey Meyerhof, (1994). Evolution of safety factors and geotechnical limit state design. The 2nd Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texam A&M University, College station, Texas.

T.William Lambe, (1997). The selection of soil strength for a stability analysis. The 5th Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texam A&M University, College station, Texas.

John B. Burland, (1998). The Enigma of the leaning tower of Pisa. The 6th Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texam A&M University, College station, Texas.

Geotechnical Investigations & In-Situ Testing

J.S. Goldsworthy, M.B. Jaksa, G.A. Fenton, W.S. Kaggwa, D.V. Griffiths, H.G. Poulos, Y.L. Kuo, (2004). Influence of Site Investigations on the Design of Pad Footings. Proceedings, 9th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Auckland.

M.B. Jaksa, W.S. Kaggwa, G.A. Fenton, H.G. Poulos, (2003). A Framework for quantifying the reliability of Geotechnical Investigations. Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering. Der Kiureghian, Madanat & Pestana, Millpress, Rotterdam.

G.T. Houlsby, (1998). Advanced interpretation of field tests. Geotechnical Site Characterization, Robertson and Mayne, Balkema, Rotterdam.

Ground Improvement

K. Soga, M.D. Bolton, S.K.A. Au, K. Komiya, J.P. Hamelin, A. Van Cotthem, G. Buchet, J.P. Michel, (2000). Development of compensation grouting modelling and control system. Geotechnical aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, Kusakabe, Fujita & Miyazaki. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Dams & Embankments

B. Muhunthan and A.N. Schofield, (1999). Liquefaction and Dam Failures. ASC Conference, GeoDenver 2000.

M. Seid-Karbasi and P.M. Byrne, (2004). Embankment dams and Earthquakes. Hydropower & Dams Issue 2.

W.R. Morrison, E.W. Gray Jr., J.M. Cyganiewicz and P.G. Grey, (1991). Use of Geosynthetics in Dams. Bureau of Reclamation experiences with Geomembranes in Dam Construction. 11th Annual USCOLD Lecture Series. United States Committee on Large Dams. White Plains, New York.

Matthews Gregory Paul, (1980). Measured and predicted pore pressures in earth dams. M.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering.

Computational Geomechanics

Murray Fredlund, (2004). Finite element Stochastic Analysis. 57th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 5th Joint IAH-CGS Conference, Quebec, QC, Canada.

Stuart Hardy, (2003). The implementation and application of dynamic finite element analysis to geotechnical problems. PhD Thesis, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

Bentler J. David, (1998). Finite element analysis of Deep Excavations. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Tunneling & Underground Construction

Kazuhito Komiya, Kenichi Soga, Hirokazu Akagi, Toshiyuki Hagiwara and Malcolm D. Bolton, (1999). Finite element modelling of excavation and advancement processes of a shield tunneling machine. Soils and Foundations Vol.39, No. 3, 37-52, Japaneese Geotechnical Society.

Tadashi Sugiyama, Toshiyuki Hagiwara, Toshi Nomoto, Masaaki Nomoto, Yutaka Ano, R.J. Mair, M.D. Bolton and Kenichi Soga, (1999). Observations of ground movements during tunnel construction by slurry shield method at the Docklands Light Railway Lewisham Extension - East London. Soils and Foundations Vol.39, No. 3, 99-112, Japaneese Geotechnical Society.

Environmental Geotechnics

R. Kerry Rowe and Prebaharan Nadarajah, (1993). Evaluation of the hydraulic conductivity of aquitards. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, No 30.

F.S. Barone, R.K. Rowe and R.M. Quigley, (1990). Laboratory determination of chloride diffusion coefficient in an intact mudstone. Geotechnical Research Report GEOT-4-90.

R.K. Rowe and J.R. Booker, (1990). Modelling of 2D contaminant migration in a layered and fractured zone beneath landfills. Geotechnical Research Report GEOT-17-90.

Geosynthetics

Technical Manual, Army TM 5-818-8, Air Force AFJMAN 32-1030, (1995). Engineering use of Geotextiles. Departments of the Army and the Air Force.

Technical Letter No. 1110-2-286, CECW-EG, (1984). Engineering and Design. Use of Geotextiles under RIPRAP. Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C.

J.S. Sharma and M.D. Bolton, (2001). Centrifugal and numerical modelling of reinforced embankments on soft clay installed with wick drains. Geotextiles and Geomembranes 19, 23-44. Elsevier Sciences Ltd.

Engineering Geology

J.T. Engelder and C.H. Scholz, (1976). The Role of Asperity Indentation and Ploughing in Rock Friction - II. Influence of Relative Hardness and normal Load. International Journal Rock Mechanics Mining Science and Geomech. Abstr. Vol.13, 155-163. Pergamon Press, Great Britain.

C.H. Scholz and J.T. Engelder, (1976). The Role of Asperity Indentation and Ploughing in Rock Friction - I. Asperity Creep and Stick-Slip. International Journal Rock Mechanics Mining Science and Geomech. Abstr. Vol.13, 149-154. Pergamon Press, Great Britain.

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics

Green A. Russell, (2001). Energy-Based evaluation and remedation of Liqufiable soils. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Cooke G. Harry, (2000). Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Mitigation at existing Highway Bridges. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

B. Muhunthan and A.N. Schofield, (1999). Liquefaction and dam failures. CUED/D-SOILSITR310. Paper submitted for ASC Conference GeoDenver 2000.

Polito Carmine Paul, (1999). The effects of non-plastic and plastic fines on the Liquefaction of sandy Soils. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Geoengineering Events

EURO: TUN 2007 Conference on Computational Methods in Tunneling, Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), 27-29 August 2007, Vienna, Austria.

LARAM - International School on ''LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation'', University of Salerno, 2-15 September 2007, Ravello, Italy.

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Contributors

Special thanks to:

Ioannides Th. John, Dipl. Civil/Geotech. Engineer, GeoLogismiki.

Samani F.B. , MSc in Engineering Geology, Head of Geotechnic Section, Tamavan Consulting Engineering.

Siham Eldien Elsharief Mustafa, Geologist, Sudan.

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Geo-Software Listing

There are currently 100 programs in 11 categories

New Additions:

Shallow Foundation Design

Spread footing (Fine): Program allows you to design footings subjected to general loading. It computes load-bearing capacity, settlement and rotation of a footing and then determine the required longitudinal as well as shear reinforcement.

Underground Construction & Tunneling

Plaxis 3D Tunnel finite element program for tunnel design: a geotechnical finite element package which is specifically intended for the three-dimensional analysis of deformation and stability in tunnel projects.

Retaining Walls

Sheeting check (Fine) - Program allows you to analyze sheet piled structures employing the method of dependent pressures.

Nailed slopes: The program analyses nailed walls and slopes of various shapes.

Deep Foundations

PILE - Pile Capacity Calculation: calculates the vertical load carrying capacities of a range of individual piles in a layered soil deposit.

SteinP 3DT: a usefull software for contacting settlements calculation taking into consideration the influence of nearby footing elements.

Site Characterization

CPeT-IT: an easy to use yet detailed software package for the interpretation of CPTU data. It takes CPT data and performs basic interpretation in terms of Soil Behavior Type (SBT) and various other geotechnical parameters.

Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering

LiqIT: a software for the assessment of soil liquefaction potential based on commonly used field data. It utilizes the most recent and well-known used deterministic and probabilistic methods that exist today.

Geophysics

Rayfract®: The Rayfract® Seismic Refraction Tomography software allows reliable imaging of subsurface velocity structure.

General

CESAR-LCPC: Its intuitive and highly interactive graphical interface allows you to model 2D or 3D tunnels as well as foundation, excavation or embankment problems.

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Geoengineering Forum & Bulletin Board

The Geoengineering Forum & Bulletin Boards were created to satisfy the need for free geo- information dissemination and communication.

Currently our users have posted a total of 359 articles.

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Geoengineer.org Photo Gallery

The Geoengineer.org Photo Gallery intends to become the largest online collection of photos in geoengineering worldwide. It currently includes 282 photos in 22 albums. You are invited to submit photos for inclusion in our gallery and win Geotechnical books as prices.

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Subalbum: Faulting of Neogen Mudrock, Iran
Photo: GEO-233

Album: Geotechnical Investigations
Photos: GEO-225, GEO-226, GEO-227, GEO-228, GEO-229

Album: Failures
Subalbum: Tunnel collapse, City of Serres, Greece

New Album: Bimrocks

Album: Earthfill - Rockfill Dam
Subalbum: Masjed Soleyman 170 ft dam, Iran

Album: Ground Improvement
Subalbum: Stonecolumns, Municipality of Kerkinis, NW of Serres - Greece


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