Sinkholes open in New Jersey's beach
About 12 sinkholes have opened in Sea Bright beach, located in New Jersey, during the past days. The sinkholes that are up to 1 meter wide and deep, appeared on the beach after Subtropical Storm Meli...
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Unconfined Compression Test
The Unconfined Compression Test is a laboratory test used to derive the Unconfirmed Compressive Strength (UCS) of a rock specimen. UCS stands for the maximum axial compressive stress that a specim...
Landslide struck a house near Carmarthen, UK: Family barely escapes
A family barely escaped before debris from a landslide hit their residence. The incident occurred on September 29, 2019. The house is located between the villages of Cynwyl Elfed and Bronwydd and the...
Keller wins global projects award for work on the Follo Line Project in Norway
Keller’s work on the prestigious Follo Line Project in Norway has won an Award of Merit in the Rail category at the ENR (Engineering News-Record) Global Best Projects competition. The annual contest...
Rice irrigation affected a massive, earthquake-induced landslide in Indonesia
Back in 2018, massive landslides were triggered after a Mw 7,5 earthquake struck the city of Palu, Indonesia. According to a new study, published in Nature Journal, rice irrigation may have exacerbat...
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Installation and Efficiency of Common Helical Couplings
CHANCE engineers Jason Herron and Joseph Brown will present on the Installation and Efficiency of Common Helical Couplings at the DFI 44th Annual Conference in Chicago on Thursday, October 17. ABSTRA...
Pocket Penetrometer for fast estimates of unconfined compressive strength of cohesive soils
The pocket penetrometer is specified for use by OSHA for field personnel to verify soil strength estimates when evaluating stability and the safety of trench excavations. It verifies whether excavati...
Static Load Test on Calcasieu Pass Liquefied Natural Gas Project
Static Load Testing (SLT) Static Load Testing (SLT) is used to evaluate the behavior of deep foundations prior to structure construction and tests the foundation’s axial compression or tension behavi...
Wykeham Farrance’s Resonant Column to evaluate Shear Modulus and Damping Ratio
Wykeham Farrance’s Resonant Column is a versatile system that combines Resonant Column and torsional shear tests into one convenient device allowing you to determine the following: RC: damping ratio...
State-of-the-art drilling technology used in a £3.2bn project by Keller
Woodsmith Mine is being developed by Sirius to extract Polyhalite for use as an agricultural fertiliser. Sirius is in the process of sinking production and service shafts down to the potash deposits,...
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A Rare Film of Karl Terzaghi featuring also Casagrande, Ruth Terzaghi, Schaffernak, and Forchheimer
Geoengineer.org is extremely pleased to make available to what is, to date, a rare film featuring Karl & Ruth Terzaghi and colleagues. The original material was provided by Prof. Bengt H. Felle...
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Online Training on Plaxis Automation Part III: Result Post-Processing Automation in PLAXIS Output
This online training is the final part of the series Plaxis Automation Online Trainings will be focusing on the PLAXIS Output program. After building up a FE model in the PLAXIS Input program and af...
Quality Control & Quality Assurance of Deep Foundations Workshop-Miami
Pile Dynamics, Inc presents a one-day workshop on the State of Practice: Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Deep Foundations and various testing methods. The workshop will take place on Monday,...
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Soil volatilization of pollutants; the scope of the problem, measuring instruments and soil parameters that influence volatilization Anisotropy Effect on the Small Strain Shear Modulus of a Compacted Lateritic Soil Strength and Settlement Characteristics of Low Plastic Soils Treated with Cement Deep Mixing Technique The use of Electro-levels for monitoring a vertical pile subjected to horizontal load- FMGM2018 Physical Model of a Geosynthetic-Reinforced Pile-Supported Embankment Systems (GRPS) under Work Stress Conditions Physical Modelling of the Behavior of Soil Nailing Subjected to Differential Settlements Near to the Face Investigation and evaluation of surface settlement induced by tunneling in critical area Tehran metro line 6 Managing the effects of undrained displacements induced by piles driven in soft lacustrine clay Dynamic structural characterization and monitoring of the Basilica di Massenzio – Rome Rome Metro Line Monitoring System: the C Line experience
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A Rare Film of Karl Terzaghi featuring also Casagrande, Ruth Terzaghi, Schaffernak, and Forchheimer
Geoengineer.org is extremely pleased to make available to what is, to date, a rare film featuring Karl & Ruth Terzaghi and colleagues. The original material was provided by Prof. Bengt H. Felle...
Photo of the 1st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering that was held in 1936 in Harvard
This is a photo of the attendees of the 1st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering that was held in 1936 in Harvard. This high-resolution photo was re-published in t...
Guajataca Dam Spillway Failure
Contributed by: Alesandra C. Morales-Vélez (Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering at UPRM). Hurricanes Irma and María were classified as category 5 hurricanes on the Saffir-Simpson hu...
Bull’s Liver Soil
This is a video of rock flour, also known as Bull’s liver. Although it is fine grained, and is commonly confused to be clayey, it is essentially a silt, with particles of quartz grounded to small s...
Reliability of Shallow Foundation Design Using the Standard Penetration Test
Download paper, available by permission of the publisher. Reference: Zekkos, D.P., Bray, J.D., Der Kiureghian, A. (2004), “Reliability of shallow foundation design using the standard penetration test...
Attemberg Limits
The consistency and behavior of a clayey soil is different as are the engineering properties at varying degrees of moisture content. Thus, the boundary between each state can be defined based on a ch...
Water Content (w)
The water content (w), also known as natural water content or natural moisture content, is the ratio of the weight of water to the weight of the solids in a given mass of soil. This ratio is usuall...
dewatering in FLAC2D
By MohammadReza H.V., 20 Sep 2019
Problem in modelling shield tunnel in plaxis 2d ?By Mohammad Sadegh Soheilipour, 23 Aug 2019
Installation of GCM layer at the inner face of solid waste retaining dam ( Reinforcement soil embankment)16 Aug 2019
Books
2019 Geotechnical Business Directory
This unique annual business directory includes 9,000+ professionals and 700+ companies and organizations in the geotechnical engineering profession. Powered by GeoWorld, the professional network for g...
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...