The operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India ended successfully on late Tuesday, November 28. Furthermore, as was previously reported, the workers had been trapped appro...
Drilling has recently commenced in Aarhus, Denmark, on the first wells of what is going to be the European Union’s largest geothermal district heating system. Furthermore, Project Aarhus is going to...
Rozelle Interchange, Sydney’s new 24-kilometer underground junction, is scheduled to open within the coming weeks. Furthermore, the Rozelle Interchange is one of the most complex underground junctio...
The U.S. Coast Guard has been investigating the source of an oil spill near Louisiana, which has caused an estimated 1.1-million-gallon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Furthermore, USA Today reported th...
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has a long history of overland flooding since 1835, with 17 notable floods, mostly caused by ice jams as the river breaks up. The Municipality has begun a mu...
Keller's design-build Vibro Pier® ground improvement system was the first approved and used in Clark County, Nevada. Built on a parcel of land previously occupied by a screen printing and embroidery...
Engineering News Record (ENR) ranks Keller #1 Excavation and Foundation firm for 2023. This is Keller’s fifth year holding this top position. Before 2019, this position was held by Keller company H...
Helical pile foundation design is an engineering science, thanks in part to the work of Austrian mechanical engineer Karl von Terzaghi. Learn more about using his equation in this introduction to fou...
With 45 years in the industry, John is an expert in soil nailing, slope stabilization, and anchored earth retention. Before joining Keller (then Hayward Baker) in 1996, John held various roles in en...
This project consisted of a construction of a 720,000 square foot, 6-story, metal- and glass-clad oval-shaped arena with an estimated seating capacity of 18,000. Subsurface conditions consisted of at...
Course Details Date: December 7th - 8th, 2023 Venue: Intercontinental Hotel - Gümüşsuyu Mah. Asker Ocağı Cad. No:1 Taksim 34435, İstanbul, Turkey Schedule: 9 am to 5 pm Instructors: This course will...
The Ground to Cloud Webinar series is for gINT and HoleBASE users investigating a migration to OpenGround and existing OpenGround users. We profile a company’s journey to OpenGround, drill into a few...
We are very happy to share with you a rare tape, which includes recordings of Karl von Terzaghi and Ralph Peck. The introduction was recorded by Dr. Ralph B. Peck at his home in Urbana, Illinois on A...
In general, protection measures can be distinguished into two main categories: engineered and non-engineered measures (Turner and Schuster, 2012). Engineered protection measures...
Problem 9.1 A square footing of width 2.25m is founded at depth of 1.5m on a sand layer which has the following shear strength properties: c=0, φ=38͒. Determine the total ultimate bearing capacity...
Definitions Fig.2 shows the relationship between the settlement and the applied stress on the soil surface. Curve C1 refers to dense soils (general failure), while Curve C2 refers to lose...
A foundation is considered as shallow when its width is greater than its embedment depth (Df ≤ B). Figure 1: Definition of shallow foundation When the ground surface level is different betwee...
Flow Nets - Confined Flow Number of flow channels partitions nf = 4 Number of equipotential drops nd = 9 nf/nd = schematic flow net coefficient = 4/9=0.44 A-B: first equipotential...
When flow is two-dimensional, simple application of Darcy’s law is not enough for the solution of the problem. Considering flow in the x-z plane through a soil particle dx,dy,dz Vεισ= volume...
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The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by...
Over the last 50 years there has been rapid development of construction techniques, analytical methods and materials for use in ground engineering. One of the major techniques which has been developed...
