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    Geoengineer.org Newsletter Issue #38
    A publication of Geoengineer.org website
    February 2008

    GEOENGINEER.ORG REACHES 70,000 VISITORS PER MONTH!!

    Geoengineer.org has almost double its traffic in 2007. In April 2006, 15,000 individuals visited the website. Traffic has been steadily increasing since, and in December 2007, the website was visited by approximately 70,000 visitors!!

    Geoengineer.org has become a major source of geoengineering information on the web. With the support of our Corporate Sponsors we have expanded the content, resources and activities of our website.

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    Dimitrios Zekkos, Ph.D., P.E., Managing Director

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    2007 website statistics
    Website traffic breaks all records
  • Number of monthly unique visitors: Increased from 40,000 in January 2007 to 70.000 visitors in December 2007.
  • Total page views in 2007: 2,371,845
  • Total hits in 2007: 6,806,331
  • Additional detailed 2007 statistics

    Online Geoengineering Library

    A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 942 different resources in 20 sections).

    New Additions:

    Soil Mechanics

    Alan R. Crumley, Américo L. Fernández, Carlos A. Regalado, (2003). Compressibility Relationships for Soils in Puerto Rico Correlaciones de Compresibilidad para Suelos en Puerto Rico. Soil and Rock America, 12th Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Ian F. Collins, Tamsyn Hilder, (2002). A theoretical framework for constructing elastic/plastic constitutive models of triaxial tests. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2002; 26:1313-1347 (DOI: 10.1002/nag.247). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

    Rock Mechanics

    Mark Stephen Diederichs, (1999). Instability of Hard Rockmasses: The Role of Tensile Damage and Relaxation. PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

    M.S. Diederichs, P.K. Kaiser, E. Eberhardt, (2004). Damage initiation and propagation in hard rock during tunnelling and the influence of near-face stress rotation. International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences 41 (2004) 785-812. Elsevier Ltd.

    D.M. Doolin, N. Sitar, (2001). DDAML - discontinuous deformation analysis markup language. International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences 0 (2001) 1-8. Elsevier Science Ltd.

    Foundation Design

    D.V. Griffiths, G.A. Fenton, (2005). Probabilistic settlement analysis of rectangular footings. 16th ICSMGE, Osaka, Japan.

    Gordon A. Fenton, D. V. Griffiths, (2001). Bearing Capacity of Spatially Random c-phi Soils. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG 01), Tucson, Arizona, pp. 1411-1415.

    Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics

    Robb Eric Shedwick Moss, (2003). CPT-Based Probabilitic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Initiation. PhD Thesis, Engineering-Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Berkeley, California.

    Peter M. Byrne, Sung-Sik Park, Michael Beaty, Michael Sharp, Lenart Gonzalez, Tarek Abdoun, (2004). Numerical modeling of liquefaction and comparison with centrifuge tests. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 41: 193-211 (2004) doi: 10.1139/T03-088. NRC Canada.

    P. M. Byrne & S. S. Park, M. Beaty, (2003). Seismic liquefaction: centrifuge and numerical modeling. FLAC and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics, pp.321-331.

    S. S. Park & P. M. Byrne, (2004). Numerical modeling of soil liquefaction at slope site. International Conference on Cyclic behaviour of soils and liquefaction, pp.571-580.

    Environmental Geotechnics

    Ulrich Langer, (2005). Shear and Compression Behaviour of Undegraded Municipal Solid Waste. PhD Thesis, Loughborough University.

    Geotechnical Investigations & In-situ testing

    W. Broere, (2001). Tunnel Face Stability & New CPT Applications. PhD Thesis, Delft University of Technology, Delft.

    W. Broere, A.F. van Tol, (2001). Horizontal cone penetration testing in sand. Proceedings of the XVth Inernational Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001, pp. 555-558.

    Ground Improvement

    R.D. Barksdale, R.C. Bachus, (1983). Design and Construction of Stone Columns Volume II, Appedixes. Report No: FHWA/RD-83/027. School of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta - Georgia. Federal Highway Administration, Office of Engineering and Highway Operations Research and Development, Washington D.C.

    Report No: FHWA/RD-86/168. Prefabricated Vertical Drains, (1986). US Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Research, Development and Technology.

    Tom Armour, Paul Groneck, James Keelev, Sunil Sharma, (2000). Micropile Design and Construction Guidelines Implementation Manual - Priority Technologies Program (PTP) Project. PUBLICATION NO. FHWA - SA - 97 - 070. US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Priority Technologies Program.

    Tunneling & Underground Construction

    M. Barla, S. Ferrero, G. Barla, (2003). A new approach for predicting the swelling behaviour of expansive clays in tunnelling. International Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ZM2003, Lefkosa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 29-31 May 2003.

    Dams & Embankments

    Raymond J. Krizek, (2004). Slurries in Geotechnical Engineering. The Twelfth Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

    Soil Mechanics Note No.13 210VI: ENG - Dispersive Clays, (1991). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service Engineering Division.

    Engineering Geology

    Terry Engelder, (1987). Joints and Shear Fractures in Rock. Fracture Mechanics of Rock. Academic Press Inc. London Ltd.

    Geosynthetics

    Wesseloo Johan, (2004). The strength and stiffness of geocell support packs. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria.

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    Employment Opportunities

    New additions:

    TNO DIANA BV is looking for a geomechanical specialist to be located in Delft Office, The Netherlands.
    More info...

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    Geoengineering Events

    Conferences

    33rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations & 11th International Conference on Piling and Deep Foundations, 15-17 October, 2008. Hilton New York, New York, NY 10019.

    International Conference on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering - from case history to practice - IS-Tokyo 2009. 15-17 June, 2009. Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan. Call for Abstracts.

    Courses / Workshops / Seminars

    4th Annual Soil Nailing Seminar, 22 February 2008. InterContinental Dallas Hotel, Addison, TX.

    Non-Destructive Testing of Deep Foundations Seminar, 6 March 2008. Kansas Department of Transportation, Olathe, KS.

    Super Pile '08 Seminar, 29-30 April 2008. Hilton Philadelphia Airport, Philadelphia, PA.

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    Geo-Software Listing

    There are currently 117 programs in 11 categories.

    New Additions:

    Slope Stability

    BGSLOPE: Circular and arbitrary slip surfaces, linear and nonlinear failure laws.

    General

    NENVE Nonlinear failure envelopes for soil and rock: Program derives parameters of hyperbolic type failure envelope.

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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 510 articles.

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    News of our Affiliates

    Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc. is pleased to announce the scheduling of their 2008 CONE PENETRATION TESTING (CPT) short courses.

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    Contributors

    Special thanks to:

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

    Langer Ulrich, Ph.D., Dipl.-Ing., Consulting Engineer, Wasteconsult International, Langenhagen, Germany.

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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 414 photos in 25 albums. You are invited to submit photos for inclusion in our gallery and win geotechnical books as prices.

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    Album: Engineering Geology
    Subalbum: Karsts in Iran.

    Album: Earthfill - rockfill dam
    Subalbum: 15 Khurdad Earthfill Dam, Qom - Iran.
    New Photos: GEO-355, GEO-356, GEO-357


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