Frawley Stadium Helical Piles Project
Frawley Stadium is preparing for the 2021 Baseball Season, making necessary improvements to keep this landmark a welcoming venue for seasons to come. Local installer, Breslin Contracting, worked with...
Bentley User Conference : Plaxis Users Meeting begins on Jun 24th 2021
Bentley User Conference : Plaxis Users Meeting begins on Jun 24th 2021
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An active fault zone poses a threat for infrastructure in Salt Lake City, Utah
According to a new study, a complex fault system beneath Salt Lake City can pose a severe threat to infrastructure if it is activated during an earthquake. Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah with...
The Hoover dam reaches all-time low water level
Hoover Dam, one of the most iconic dams ever constructed, has reached its lowest water level in history. Hoover Dam is an arch-gravity dam made of concrete and is located at the Black Canyon, Colorad...
Slope Stability: Critical Failure Surface & Design Factor of Safety
Critical Failure Surface As discussed in the previous chapters of the Geoengineer.org series on Slope Stability, a single failure surface can be analyzed via various methods that evolved over the ye...
Improving weak soils with columns of compacted crushed concrete
Keller’s committed to reducing its impact on the environment by offering clients more sustainable solutions wherever possible. Improving weak soils with columns of compacted crushed concrete, recycle...
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How to Model Piles in PLAXIS
The problem of analyzing and designing deep foundations is relevant to many civil engineering structures, because we are commonly and frequently constructing buildings on soft soils. Pile foundation...
How to Perform Dewatering in PLAXIS
The problem of changing water conditions is omnipresent in geotechnical engineering. Groundwater is systematically found beneath the Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and rock formation fractures....
Keller cuts project carbon emissions by more than 90%
As the world’s largest geotechnical company, Keller wants to lead the sector in offering products and solutions that contribute towards a more sustainable future. One example of this is in Singapore,...
Save 20% off to all Bentley Software!
Bentley Systems is celebrating Virtuosity’s anniversary this week and offering 20% off all Bentley software sold on Virtuosity, Bentley’s eStore! Plus every software license comes with training and e...
Model Structures and Visualize Structural Forces
Soil-structure interaction is a crucial aspect for both geotechnical and structural fields. There is always an interaction between a structure and its foundation … and its proper investigation is an...
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Marsquakes detected by NASA's InSight Mission
NASA's InSight Mars Lander has recently retrieved clear data of two relatively strong quakes that occurred on the Red Planet. The InSight Lander was launched in 2018 and successfully landed on Mars t...
Upcoming Events
Bentley User Conference : Plaxis Users Meeting
In this event, PLAXIS users are invited to give a presentation on the application of PLAXIS finite element software in actual geotechnical engineering projects. Attendees will get to learn from the e...
Keller Webinar Series: Groundwater Control
Join Keller for the second webinar in their series highlighting Keller's solutions to a wide range of geotechnical challenges. Register to webinar About this event This webinar will focus on groundwa...
The 1st International Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering – Geodiversity & Resilience (1st ICSGE’21) IS-Cambidge - 10th International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground Advances in Subsurface Mechanics for Energy and Environment – 2021 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (7ICRAGEE) Sixth GeoChina International Conference 2021: Civil & Transportation Infrastructures: From Engineering to Smart & Green Life Cycle Solutions
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Publications
Field Description of Soil and Rock Dynamics of slow and fast landslides Earthquake-induced landslides: complicated mechanisms and outputs Challenges in analyzing landslide risk dynamics for risk reduction planning Altos de la Estancia: a Large Landslide Area in Bogota, Colombia- History and Remedial Measures Pore water pressures and hydraulic conductivity in a clayey earthflow: experimental data in the landslide body, in the slip band and in the stable soil Historical distribution for landslides triggered by earthquakes in the Colombian region Landslides triggered by the December 24, 2019 Mesetas (Meta, Colombia) Earthquake Mass movements at a UNESCO World Heritage Site: a preliminary study at the Tierradentro National Archaelogical Park (Cauca Department, Colombia) Possibility of landslide damming in the Vakhsh River catchment and its effect on the hydraulic schemes and population
Education
Arvid Landva (1930-2021)
The following obituary is distributed by Canadian Geotechnical Society on June 2021. It is with sadness that we announce the passing of long-time CGS member, Arvid Landva, on May 4th. Born in Norw...
Rocscience International Conference 2021 - Lifetime Achievement Session - Dr. Evert Hoek
Recently at the Rocscience International Conference 2021, Dr. Evert Hoek received the Lifetime Achievement Medal for his contributions in the field of Rock Engineering. Below you can watch the sp...
Slope Stability: The Spencer Method of Slices
Description of Method The Spencer Method of Slices was developed by Spencer in 1967. It is one of the most theoretically rigorous Methods of Slices since it satisfies both force and moment equilibr...
Slope Stability: The Janbu Method
Description of Method Janbu’s Method was developed by the Norwegian Professor N. Janbu. The method has similar features with the Bishop Method of Slices regarding the assumptions made on the inter...
Slope Stability: The Bishop Method of Slices
The Bishop Method of Slices The Bishop Method was introduced in 1955 by Alan Wilfred Bishop from the Imperial College in London. It is one of several Methods of Slices developed to assess the st...
Slope Stability: Introduction to the Method of Slices
Introduction In circular failure surfaces, when the soil is under conditions that allow for partial or full drainage (drained conditions), its shear strength is controlled by both its cohes...
Slope Stability: Single Free-Body Procedures
As discussed in Mechanics of Slope Stability, the most widely used approach for assessing both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional slope stability is the Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM), i.e., assessing...
Correlated UCS values from PLI
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Bearing Capacity of Soil with Air PacketsBy HARSHITHA A M, 05 May 2021
Use of Slag on Road ConstructionBy Sidney Mougueret De Abreu, 14 Apr 2021
Books
2021 Geotechnical Business Directory
This unique annual business directory includes 23,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies and organizations in the geotechnical engineering profession. Powered by GeoWorld, the professional network fo...
Practical Soil Dynamics
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...
Practical Guide to Green Technology for Ground Engineering
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...