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Geoengineer.org Newsletter Issue #33

A publication of Geoengineer.org website

September 2007


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Online Geoengineering Library

A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 651 different recources in 20 sections)

New additions:

Soil Mechanics

M.D. Bolton & C.K. Lau, (1988). Scale effects arising from particle size. Centriguge 88, Corte (ed.), Balkema, Rotterdam.

J. Garnier, L. Thorel, R. Lynch, M. Bolton, C. Kechavarzi, A. Treadaway, H. Coumolos, K. Soga, D. Konig, A. Rezzoug, G. Heibrock, F.A. Weststrate, J.T. Van der Poel, O. Oung, R.R. Schrijver, R.N. Taylor, S. Robson, S.Spiessl, H.G.B. Allersma, G.M. Esposito, M. Davis, S. Burkhart, C.M. Merrifield, W.H. Craig, (1998). NECER: Network of European Centrifuges for Environmental Geotechnic Research. Centrifuge, Tokyo.

Rock Mechanics

J. Sarout, L. Molez, Y. Gueguen, N. Hoteit, (2006). Shale dynamic properties and anisotropy under triaxial loading: Experimental and theoretical investigations. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. Science Direct. Elsevier Ltd.

Foundation Design

B.W. Byrne, G.T. Houlsby, C.M. Martin, (2002). Cyclic loading of shallow offshore foundations on sand. Proceedings of International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG), St John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

Paul W. Mayne, (2002). Equivalent CPT Method for calculating shallow foundation settlements in the Piedmont Residual Soils based on the DMT Constrained Modulus Approach.

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics

Medley, E., Zekkos, D., (2007), "Seismic Performance of rock block structures with observations from the October 2006 Hawaii Earthquake", 4th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, June 25-28, 2007.

Ross W. Boulanger, Izzat M. Idriss, Lelio H. Mejia, (1995). Center for Geotechnical Modeling. Report No. UCD/CGM-95/02. Investigation and Evaluation of liquefaction related ground displacements at Moss Landing during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Appendices. CPT. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis.

Subhamoy Bhattacharya, Malcolm Bolton, (2004). Errors in Design leading to Pile failures during seismic liquefaction. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering , New York.

Zhi-Liang Wang, Yannis F. Dafalias, (2002). Simulation of post-liquefaction deformation of sand. 15th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Columbia University, New York.

Geotechnical Investigations & In-situ testing

California Department of Transportation, Caltrans, Soil and Rock Logging, Classification, and Presentation Manual, June 2007.

D.J. White, (2003). Field measurements of CPT and pile base resistance in sand. Research Fellow, St John's College, University of Cambridge.

G.T. Houlsby and R. Hitchman, (1988). Calibration chamber tests of a cone penetrometer in sand. Geotechnique 38, No.1, 39-44.

Thomas Nilsson, Renato Cunha, (2003). Advantages and equations for pile design in Brazil via DPL tests. 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Site Characterization, Porto, Portugal.

Geophysical Exploration

John N. Louie, (2001). Faster, Better: Shear-Wave Velocity to 100 Meters Depth From Refraction Microtremor Arrays. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 91, no. 2, p. 347-364. Pdf version.

Michael L. Rucker, (2003). Applying the refraction microtremor (ReMi) shear wave technique to geotechnical characterization. Proceedings of the third international conference on the application of geophysical methodologies and NDT to transportation and infrastructure, Orlando, Florido, USA.

W. J. Stephenson, J. N. Louie, S. Pullammanappallil, R. A. Williams, and J. K. Odum, (2005). Blind shear- wave velocity comparison of ReMi and MASW results with boreholes to 200m in Santa Clara Valley: Implications for earthquake ground motion assessment. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol 95., No 6, p. 2506-2516.

Douglas W. Lambert, Glen Adams, and Veronica Hawley, (2007). Use of refraction microtremor (REMI) data for shear wave velocity determination at an urban bridge rehabilitation site. Geophysics 2006 conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Michael L. Rucker. Characterizing potential 'bridging ground' conditions using the refraction microtremor (ReMi) surface seismic technique.

Satish Pullammanappallil, Bill Honjas, and John Louie, (2003). Determination of 1-D shear wave velocities using the refraction microtremor method. Proceedings of the third international conference on the application of geophysical methodologies and NDT to transportation and infrastructure, Orlando, Florido, USA.

Satish Pullammanappallil, Bill Honjas, John Louie, J. A. Siemens, and Hidetoshi Miura, (2003). Comparative Study of the Refraction Microtremor (ReMi) Method: Using Seismic noise and standard P-wave refraction equipment for deriving 1-D S-wave profiles. 6th international SEG-J conference, Tokyo, Japan.

Luigi Veronese and Tomas Garbari, (2004). Esperienze Di Misura Vs30 Con la Tecnica Refraction Microtremor (ReMi) (in Italian). Convegno La Geofisca e La Nuova Normativa Sismica, Venezia.

Michael L. Rucker, (2006). Integrating seismic refraction and surface wave data collection and interpretation for geotechnical site characterization. Geophysics 2006 conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Satish Pullammanappallil and John Louie, (1994). A Generalized Simulated-Annealing Optimization for Inversion of First-Arrival Times. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 84, No. 5, pp. 1397-1409.

Charles F. Narwold and William P. Owen, (2002). Seismic refraction analysis of landslides. Proceedings of the Geophysics 2002 conference, Los Angeles, California.

Satish Pullammanappallil and John Louie, (1993). Inversion of seismic reflection traveltimes using a nonlinear optimization scheme. Geophysics, vol. 58, No. 11, p 1607-1620.

Satish Pullammanappallil and John Louie, (1997). A combined first-arrival travel time and reflection coherency optimization approach to velocity estimation. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 511-514.

Satish Pullammanappalil, Bill Honjas, Jeff Unruh, and Frank Monastero, (2001).Use of Advanced Data Processing Techniques in the Imaging of the Coso Geothermal Field. Proceedings 26th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, California.

Jeff Unruh, Satish Pullammanappallil, Bill Honjas, and Frank Monastero. New Seismic Imaging of the Coso Geothermal Field, Eastern California.

Abu M. Asad, Satish Pullammanappallil, Rasool Anooshehpoor, and John Louie, (1999). Inversion of travel time data for earthquake locations and three- dimensional velocity structure in the Eureka Valley area, eastern California. Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 89, pp 796-810.

Ground Improvement

Kevin J. Gaspard, (2000). Evaluation of Cement Treated Base Courses. Technical Assistance Report No. 00-1TA. Louisiana Transportation Research Center. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Developemnt.

Lee, K., Salgado, R., Jeon, W. and Kim, N. , (2002). Engineering Properties of Wastewater Treatment Sludge Modified by Hydrated Lime and Fly Ash. Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, 28(3), 145-153.

Thomas M. Petry, Khaled Sobhan, (2005). Evaluation of Chemical Stabilizers. State of the Practice Report. Transportation Research Circular E-C086, Washington.

Tunneling & Underground Construction

Gang Liu, (1997). Numerical Modelling of Damage to Masonry Buildings due to tunneling. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford.

Charles Edward Augarde, (1997). Numerical Modelling of tunneling processes for assessment of damage to buildings. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford.

Alan Graham Bloodworth, (2002). Three-Dimensional analysis of tunneling effects on structures to develop design methods. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford.

H.J. Burd, G.T. Houlsby, C.E. Augarde, G. Liu, (2000). Modelling tunneling-induced settlement of masonry buildings. Proceedings of the ICE, Geotechnical Engineering, Vol 143, pp 17-30, Awarded Telford Prize, Institution of Civil Engineers.

Dams & Embankments

Engineer Manual EM 1110-2-1911, (1995). Engineering and Design. Construction Control for Earth and Rock-fill Dams. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Washington DC.

Engineer Manual EM 1110-2-1901, (1986). Engineering and Design. Seepage Analysis and Control for Dams. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Washington DC.

Engineering Geology

Marc L. Sbar, Terry Engelder, Richard Plumb, Stephen Marshak, (1979). Stress Pattern near the San Andreas Fault, Palmdale, California, from near-surface In Situ Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research Vol.84, No. B1. The American Geophysical Union.

Geosynthetics

John S. Horvath, (2004). Lighten Your Load... Using Geofoams to reduce Structural Design Loads from the Ground. Structure Magazine.

John S. Horvath, (2004). Geomaterials Research Project No. CGT-2004-1. A Technical Note re- calculating the Fundamental Period of an EPS- Block-Geofoam Embankment. Manhattan College, School of Engineering, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.

John S. Horvath, (2003). Controlled yielding using Geofoam compressible inclusions: The New Frontier in Earth-Retaining Structures. IeC GEO3 - International e-Conference on Modern Trends in Geotechnical Engineering: Geotechnical Challenges and Solutions.

Hany L. Riad, Anthony L. Ricci, Peter W. Osborn, John S. Horvath, (2003). Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Geofoam for Road Embankments and other Lightweight fills in Urban Environments. Soil and Rock America 2003 - 12th Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering / 39th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

John S. Horvath, (2003). Center for Geotechnology, Report No. CGT-2003-1. Innovative Aspects of the use of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) on Boston's "Big Dig". Manhattan College, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.

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General Hyperlinks in Geoengineering

New Additions:

Associations - Organizations

  • International Landslide Research Group (ILRG).

Geoengineering Business Articles

  • John Falcone, (2007). Is the public-private sector the place to be at this time?

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Geoengineering Events

1st International Conference "Hazardous Waste Management". 01-03 October 2008. Minoa Palace Resort & SPA" Hotel, Chania - Crete, Greece.

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Contributors

Special thanks to:

Mackenzie Sam, Consulting Geotechnical Engineer, General Manager Technical Development, Coffey Geotechnics Pty Ltd, Australia.

Samani F.B. , MSc, Head of Geotechnics Section, Tamavan Consulting Engineering.

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Virtual Geoengineer

The Virtual Geoengineer intends to present specific topics through photos, maps, diagrams and videos using also accompanying texts.

New additions:

Stereo Presentations

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Geo-Software Listing

There are currently 106 programs in 11 categories

New Additions:

Shallow Foundation Design

BearFoot: BearFoot calculates the ultimate and allowable bearing capacity of shallow foundations based on Six different methods including SPT and CPT, and calculates the settlement in accordance to two methods.

Deep Foundations

AxPile: Determines the axial load capacity and settlement of bored piles.

Various

One Point Spreadsheet: will calculate a field one point result (Maximum Wet Density / Speedy Moisture only), a standard proctor (ASTM D698-91 / AASHTO T99), a modified proctor (ASTM D1557-91 / AASHTO T180) or any combination of the three.

EasyElsym5: Calculates Stresses, Strains, and Deflections within a pavement section.

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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 445 articles.

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News of our Affiliates

A preliminary report of the geotechnical reconnaissance of the August 15, 2007 Pisco earthquake is available on the GEER web site

National Science Foundation Highlight - GEER. Discovery: Turning Disaster into Knowledge.

Geer - Geoengineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Association. Join Now at no cost through their website.

International Landslide Research Group (ILRG)

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Photo: GEO-283

Album: Earthfill - Rockfill Dam
New Subalbum: Barum Earthfill Dam, Zangemar Chai near Maku town NW of Iran.

Album: Tunneling
New Subalbum: Old small diameter Water Conveyance Tunnel, Iran.

Album: Landslides
New Subalbum: Azizabad debris landslide, NW of Iran

Album: Soils
New Subalbum: Dispersive Soils, Pavrud Irrigation network, Iran


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