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Geoengineer.org Newsletter Issue #35

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November 2007


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Online Geoengineering Library

A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 780 different recources in 20 sections)

New Additions:

Soil Mechanics

G.T. Houlsby, C.P. Wroth, D.M. Wood, (1982). Predictions of the results of laboratory tests on a clay using a critical state model. Results of the International Workshop on Constitutive Relations for Soils, Grenoble.

Soil Mechanics Note No.9: Permeability of selected clean sands and gravels, (1984). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Engineering Division, Soil Mechanics Unit. Washington D.C.

Rock Mechanics

C.A. Morrow, D.A. Lockner, (2001). Hayward Fault Rocks: Porosity, Density and Strength Measurements. U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior.

C. Morrow, B. Rdney, J. Byerlee, (1992). Chapter 3: Frictional Strength and the Effective Pressure Law of Montmorillonite and Illite Clays. Fault Mechanics and Transport Properties of Rocks, Academic Press, Ltd.

Foundation Design

M.D. Bolton, H.W. Sun, (1991). The displacement of bridge abutments on clay. Proceedings of the International Conference on Centrifuge Testing, Boulder, Colorado, Balkema Rotterdam.

M.D. Bolton, H.W. Sun, (1991). Designing Foundations on clay to limit immediate movements. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ground Movements and Structures, Cardiff.

M.D. Bolton, (1993). Mechanisms of Ground Deformation due to Excavation in Clay. Proceedings KIGForum 93: Excavation in Urban Areas, Japanese Society Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Kobe City.

M.D. Bolton, C.K. Lau, (1993). Vertical bearing capacity factors for circular and strip footings on Mohr- Coulomb soil. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 30, 1024-1033.

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics

Zhaohui Yang, Ahmed Elgamal, (2001). Sand Boils and Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Deformation. 15th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, August. A.M. Ansal (Ed.), 345-350.

Russell A. Green, Stephen F. Obermeier, Scott M. Olson, (2004). The Role of Paleoliquefaction studies in performance - based Earthquake Engineering in the Central-Eastern United States. 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver BC, Canada.

R.A. Green, J.K. Mitchell, (2003). A closer look at Arias intensity-based liquefaction evaluation procedures. 2003 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Paper Number 94.

Environmental Geotechnics

Ir Kenny Yee, (1999). Upgrading of existing landfills by dynamic consolidation. A Geotechnical Aspect. Master Builders Journal.

David J. Kerkes, (1995). Factors to consider when planning landfill construction. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Texas Municipal Solid Waste Management Conference, Austin TX, January 25-27, pp 115- 122.

K. Badu-Tweneboah, N.D. Williams, D.W. Haubeil, (1994). Differential Settlement. Assessment of a PVC Geomembrane used in a Landfill Cover System. 5th International Conference on Geotextiles, Geomembranes and Related Products. Singapore 5- 9 September 1994.

Geotechnical Investigations & In-situ testing

J. David Rogers, (2006). Subsurface Exploration using the Standard Penetration Test and the Cone Penetrometer Test. The Geological Society of America. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, Vol. XIII, No.2, pp. 161-179.
NCHRP Synthesis 368, (2007). National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Cone Penetration Testing. A Synthesis of Highway Practice. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Washington D.C. Available from TRB.

G.T. Houlsby, H.S. Yu, (1990). [20] Finite element analysis of the cone-pressuremeter test. Pressuremeters, Thomas Telford Limited, London. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Pressuremeters, ISP3, Oxford.

G.T. Houlsby, (1990). Analysis of cone penetrometer and pressuremeter tests. 2nd European Specialty Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Santander.

Ground Improvement

Victor Elias, Barry R. Christopher, Ryan R. Berg, (2001). Report No: FHWA-NHI-00-043: Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls and Reinforced Soil Slopes Design and Construction Guidelines. National Highway Institute. Federal Highway Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington D.C.

Victor Elias, (2000). Report No: FHWA-NHI-00-044: Corrosion / Degradation of Soil Reinforcements for Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls and Reinforced Soil Slopes. National Highway Institute. Federal Highway Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington D.C.

C. Guney Olgun, (2003). Performance of improved ground and reinforced soil structures during earthquakes - Case Studies and Numerical Analyses. PhD Thesis in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.

Harvey John Burd, (1986). A Large Displacement Finite Element Analysis of a Reinforced Unpaved Road. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford.

Christopher Joseph Brocklehurst, (1993). Finite Element Studies of Reinforced and Unreinforced Two- Layer Soil Systems. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford.

Tunneling & Underground Construction

G.R. Dasari, C.G. Rawlings, M.D. Bolton, (1996). Numerical modelling of a NATM tunnel construction in London Clay. Geotechnical Aspects of Underground construction in Soft Ground, Balkema, Rotterdam.

W.L. Tan, P.G. Ranjith, (2003). Numerical Analysis of Pipe Roof Reinforcement in Soft Ground Tunneling. 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 16-18 2003, University of Washington, Seattle.

Giovanni Barla, Marci Barla, (2000). Continuum and discontinuum modelling in tunnel engineering. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

M. Bonini, M. Barla, G. Barla, (2001). Flac applications to the analysis of swelling behaviour in tunnels. 2nd Flac Symposium on Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics, Lione, 29-31 ottobre, 2001.

G. Barla, M. Brala, L. Repetto, (1999). Continuum and discontinuum modelling for design analysis of tunnels. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Dams & Embankments

L.M.N. Peiris, S.P.G. Madabhushi, A.N. Schofield, (1996). Seismic Modelling of Embankments on saturated soil deposits. CUED/D-SOILS/TR300 (1996). 1st International Symposium "Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures 96", Greece.

G. Manivannan, (2005). Viscoplastic Modelling of Embankments on Soft Soils. PhD Thesis, School of Aerospace Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University College, The UNSW at ADFA.

M.S.S. Almeida, A.M. Britto, R.H.G. Parry, (1985). Numerical Modelling of a Centrifuged Embankment on soft clay. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 23, 103-114.

Engineering Geology

T. Engelder, (1984). The Time-dependent Strain Relaxation of Algerie Granite. International Journal Rock Mechanics Vol.21, No.2, pp. 63-73, Pergamon Press Ltd, UK.

T. Engelder, R. Plumb, (1984). Changes in In Situ Ultrasonic Properties of Rock on Strain Relaxation. International Journal Rock Mechanics, Vol. 21, No.2, pp.75-85, Pergamon Press Ltd, UK.

Geosynthetics

John S. Horvath, (1998). Mathematical Modeling of the Stress-Strain-Time Behavior of Geosynthetics using the Findley Equation: General Theory and Application to EPS-Block Geofoam. Manhattan College Research Report No: CE/GE-98-3. Manhattan College, School of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Bronx, New York, USA.

John S. Horvath, (1998). The Compressible-Inclusion Function of EPS Geofoam: Analysis and Design Methodologies. Manhattan College Research Report No: CE/GE-98-2. Manhattan College Research Report No: CE/GE-98-3. Manhattan College, School of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Bronx, New York, USA.

T.D. Stark, D. Arellano, J.S. Horvath, D. Leshchinsky, (2004). Geofoam Applications in the Design and Construction of Highway Embankments. NCHRP Web Document 65 (Project 24-11). National Cooperative Highway Research program, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.

J.S. Sharma, (1995). Technical Report No: CUED/D- Soils/TR288. GEOCRISP - A Version of CRISP93 for Geosynthetic-Soil Applications. Cambridge University Engineering Department.

N.I. Thusyanthan, S.P.G. Madabhushi, (2005). Tensile behaviour of geomembrane on landfill slopes - Data report on centrifuge tests IT04 and IT06. Technical Report No: CUED/D-SOILS/TR338 (2005). Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Computational Geomechanics

Petr Krysl, (2005). A Pragmatic Introduction to the Finite Element Method for Thermal and Stress Analysis. With the Matlab toolbox SOFEA. Pressure Cooker Press.

Jose E. Andrade, (2006). Meso-Scale Finite Element Simulation of Deformation banding in Fluid-Saturated sands. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University.

Jose E. Andrade, Ronaldo I. Borja, (2007). Modeling deformation banding in dense and loose fluid- saturated sands. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design.

Victor E. Saouma. Draft - Lecture Notes in: Finite Element II - Solid Mechanics. Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Susan E. Minkoff, (2002). Spatial Parallelism of a 3D Finite Difference Velocity-Stress Elastic wave propagation code. SIAM Journal Scientific Computing, vol. 24. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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Educational Geo-websites

A collection of educational websites that intend to teach/educate students and practitioners on specific subjects of the geoengineering field. (Currently a total of 63 resources available in 13 categories).

New Additions:

Engineering Geology

Professor David Rogers lecture slides, GE50-Geology for Engineers, University of Missouri-Rolla.

Professor David Rogers lecture slides, GE-341- Engineering Geology and Geotechnics, University of Missouri-Rolla.

Professor David Rogers lecture slides, GE-342- Military Geology, University of Missouri-Rolla.

Professor David Rogers lecture slides, GE-441- Advanced Engineering Geology and Geotechnics, University of Missouri-Rolla.

General

J. David Rogers, (2006). Gow, Mohr, Terzaghi, and the Origins of the Standard Penetration Test. PPT Presentation for the Annual Meeting Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists Boston, Massachusetts, November 3rd, 2006.

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History of Geotechnical Engineering

Understanding the past, shapes the future.

New Addition:

J. David Rogers, (2006). Gow, Mohr, Terzaghi, and the Origins of the Standard Penetration Test. PPT Presentation for the Annual Meeting Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists Boston, Massachusetts, November 3rd, 2006.

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Geoengineering Events

11th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst: Integrating Science and Engineering to Solve Karst Problems. 22-26 September, 2008. Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.

International Foundation Congress & Equipment Expo 2009 - IFCEE '09. 15-19 March, 2009. Buena Vista Palace Resort, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

39th Annual Ohio River Valley Soils Seminar. 17 October, 2008. Cincinnati, Ohio. Call for Papers with emphasis on "Urban Construction".

1st International Conference on Education and Training in Geo- Engineering Sciences: Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology, Rock Mechanics. 02-04 June, 2008. University Ovidius, North of Constantza, Romania.

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Geoenginering Research Websites

New Additions:

EUROSEIS-RISK: Seismic Hazard Assessment, Site Effects and Soil-Structure Interaction in an Instrumented Basin.

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Geoengineer Software Listing

The Geoengineering Software Listing includes programs, spreadsheets and web applications on geotechnical engineering, engineering geology and related fields. (Currently there are 106 programs in 11 categories).

New Additions:

Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering Software Listing

CLiq: Soil liquefaction assessment software from CPT/CPTU data. The software addresses advanced issues such as cyclic softening in clay-like soils and thin layer/layer transition zone detection.

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Rogers J. David, Ph.D., P.E., R.G., C.E.G., C.H.G. Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Geological Engineering, Department of Geological Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla.

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