The latest edition, September 2008, of Fine Ltd. E- Newsletter has been published.

ID#GEO-15: Strata Systems appoints Nagy North Central Region Sales Manager.

ID#GEO-14: Google Earth Integration Offered for gINT Borehole Data: Related Images, Calculations, Automated Displays Programmable by Users with New Interface.

ID#GEO-13: Announcing the Geoengineering Community Blogs.

ID#GEO-12: Announcing the Geoengineer.org Donor's Fund Website.

A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 1290 different resources in 20 sections).

New Additions:

Soil Mechanics

D.G. Fredlund, A. Xing, M.D. Fredlund, S.L. Barbour, (1996). The Relationship of the Unsaturated Soil Shear Strength Function to the Soil-Water Characteristic Curve. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 40- 448.

M.D Fredlund, W.S. Sillers, D.G. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (1996). Design of a Knowledge-Based System for Unsaturated Soil Properties. 3rd Canadian Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Quebec.

D.G. Fredlund, A. Xing, S. Huang, (1994). Predicting the Permeability Function for unsaturated Soils using the Soil-Water Characteristic Curve. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 533-546.

D.G. Fredlund, A. Xing, (1994). Equations for the Soil- Water Characteristic Curve. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 521-532.

K. Georgiadis, (2003). Development, Implementation and Application of Partially Saturated Soil Models in Finite Element Analysis. PhD Thesis, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Rock Mechanics

Mazen Kanj, Younane Abousleiman, (2003). Porothermomechanics of Anisotropic Hollow Cylinders in Oedometric-like Setups. 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 16-18 2003, University of Washington, Seattle.

H.F. Wang, J.G. Berryman, T.E. Strand, (2003). Estimation of Elastic Wave Velocities from a Percolation Model for Evaporative Drying. 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle.

J.G. Berryman, (1992). Effective Stress for Transport Properties of Inhomogeneous Porous Rock. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 17409-17424.

J.G. Berryman, (2004). Poroelastic Fluid Effects on Shear for Rocks with Soft Anisotropy. Geophysical Journal International.

E.J. Garboczi, J.G. Berryman, (2000). New Differential Effective Medium Theory for the Linear Elastic Moduli of a Material Containing Composite Inclusions. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids - Elsevier.

Foundation Design

N. Thasnanipan, P. Tanseng, A.W. Maung, M.A. Anwar, (2000). Barrettes: A Versatile Foundation for Transmission Line Towers. GeoEng2000 An International Conference on Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Melbourne, Australia.

N. Thasnanipan, A.W. Maung, P. Tanseng, T. Navaneethan, (2000). Concrete for Wet Processed Bored Piles. Proceedings of the GEOTECH - YEAR 2000. Development in Geotechnical Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand.

N. Thasnanipan, A.W. Maung, Z.Z. Aye, P. Tanseng, (2001). Record Load Test on a Large Barrette and its Performance in the Layered Soils of Bangkok. 5th International Conference on Deep Foundation Practice incorporating PILETALK International 2001, Singapore.

N. Thasnanipan, M.A. Anwar, A.W. Maung, (1999). Failure Mechanism of Long Bored Piles in layered soils of Bangkok. 6th Cycle Celebration of His Majesty the King of Thailand and 40th Anniversary of the Asian Institute of Technology. Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference New Frontiers and Challenges, Bangkok, Thailand.

O.S. Carvalho, K. Kovari, (1983). The Measurement of Strain Distribution in Large Diameter Steel Piles. International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics, Zurich.

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics

Deepankar Choudhury, T.G. Sitharam, K.S. Subba Rao, (2004). Seismic Design of Earth-Retaining Structures and Foundations. Special Section: Geotechnics and Earthquake Hazards. Current Science, Vol. 87, No. 10.

A. Boominathan, (2004). Seismic Site Characterization for Nuclear Structures and Power Plants. Special Section: Geotechnics and Earthquake Hazards. Current Science, Vol. 87, No. 10.

Sajal Kanti Deb, (2004). Seismic Base Isolation - An Overview. Special Section: Geotechnics and Earthquake Hazards. Current Science, Vol. 87, No. 10.

K. Ishihara, M. Yoshimine, (1992). Evaluation of Settlements in Sand Deposits following Liquefaction during Earthquakes. Soils and Foundations, Vol.32, No.1, pp.173-188.

A. Ghahraman, J.B. Berrill, (1995). Seismic Bearing Capacity Factors by Zero Extension Line Method. Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Australia.

Geotechnical Investigations & In-situ Testing

A.B. Cerato, A.J. Lutenegger, (2004). Disturbance Effects of Field Vane Tests in a Varved Clay. Proceedings of the 2nd International Site Characterization Conference, Porto, Portugal.

Sebastiano Foti, (2000). Multistation Methods for Geotechnical Characterization using Surface Waves. PhD Thesis, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino.

Engineering Geology

M.R. Gross, T. Engelder, (1995). Strain Accommodated by Brittle Failure in adjacent units of the Monterey Formation, U.S.A.: Scale Effects and Evidencs for Uniform Displacement Boundary Conditions. Journal of Structural Geology, Vol.17, No.9. Elsevier Science Ltd, Great Britain.

M.R. Gross, M.P. Fischer, T. Engelder, R.J. Greenfield, (1995). Factors Controlling Joint Spacing in Interbedded Sedimentary Rocks: Integrating Numerical Models with Field Observations from the Monterey Formation, USA. From Ameen, M.S., ed., Fractography: fracture topography as a tool in fracture mechanics and stress analysis: Geological Society Special Publication, No. 92, pp. 215-233.

A.M. Hirt, K.F. Evans, T. Engelder, (1995). Correlation between Magnetic Anisotropy and Fabric for Devonian Shales on the Appalachian Plateau. Tectonophysics 247 (1995) 121-132. Elsevier Science BV.

T. Engelder, M.P. Fisher, (1996). Loading Configurations and Driving Mechanisms for Joints Based on the Griffith Energy-Balance Concept. Tectonophysics 256 (1996) 253-277. Elsevier Science BV.

M.P. Fischer, D. Elsworth, R.B. Alley, T. Engelder, (1996). Finite Element Analysis of the Modified Ring Test for Determining Mode I Fracture Toughness. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science & Geomechanics, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-15, Elsevier Science Ltd, Great Britain.

Computational Geomechanics

J.G. Wang, C.F. Leung, Y. Ichikawa, (2002). A Simplified Homogenisation Method for Composite Soils. Computers and Geotechnics 29 (2002) 477- 500. Elsevier Science Ltd.

M.R. Karim, T. Nogami, J.G. Wang, (2002). Analysis of Transient Response of Saturated Porous Elastic Soil under Cyclic Loading using Element-Free Galerkin Method. International Journal of Solids and Structures 39 (2002) 6011-6033. Elsevier Science Ltd.

G.R. Liu, L. Yan, J.G. Wang, Y.T. Gu, (2002). Point Interpolation Method based on Local Residual Formulation using Radial Basis Functions. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 14, No. 6 (2002) 713- 732.

J.G. Wang, C.F. Leung, Y.K. Chow, (2003). Numerical Solutions for Flow in Porous Media. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2003; 27:565-583. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Hua Xie, Toyoaki Nogami, Jianguo Wang, (2003). A Radial Boundary Node Method for Two-Dimensional Elastic Analysis. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 27 (2003) 853-862, Elsevier Ltd.

The Geoengineering Software Listing includes programs, spreadsheets and web applications on geotechnical engineering, engineering geology and related fields. Currently there are 126 programs in 11 categories.

New Additions:

Site Characterization

RAPID CPT: A gINT Add-in that imports raw CPT data, automatically calculates more than 35 correlations, and generates fully customizable CPT reports.

Geo-Data Management and Reporting

PLog: The most comprehensive mobile data collection system for borehole and test pit data. AGS compliant.

PLog Enterprise: An ArcGIS® based enterprise data management system for site investigation data.

PConcrete: A complete concrete test data management system that empowers you to efficiently manage project data, work orders, cylinder molding and break scheduling.

PDensity: A complete data management system that streamlines the field data collection and reporting of field density tests data from work orders through Proctors, specifications and testing.

Various

Energy Conversion: Windows based application that deals with physical properties, steam approximations, power cycles, power cycle components/processes and compressible flow.

A collection of educational websites that intend to teach/educate students and practitioners on specific subjects of the geoengineering field. Currently there are 64 resources available in 13 categories.

New Additions:

General

Learning Module: Introduction of GIS into the Civil Engineering Curriculum. Laboratory Handout. Missouri University of Science & Techology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla).

Conferences

12th IACMAG conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. 1-6th October, 2008. Goa, India. Goa Marriott Resort, P.O. Box 64, Miramar Panaji, 403001.

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.

28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2009). 31May-05 June, 2009. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Special thanks to:

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