Earthquakes can aggravate sea water level rise
According to a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, earthquakes can cause sea level rise even faster than climate change. Researchers believe that certain regions...
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Categories of isolated foundation footings
The foundation of a building is constructed in order to transfer the superstructure's load to the ground. An isolated footing is one of the most used types of foundation to support single-columns whe...
Hayward Baker worked on the construction of the world's first Guitar-Shaped Hotel
The iconic Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood is undergoing a $1.5 billion expansion, with a gleaming 36-storey, guitar-shaped hotel as its stunning centerpiece. Alongside the glass-fronted hotel o...
Biggest meteorite impact ever found in UK
Researchers claim to have found the site where the largest meteorite impact in the United Kingdom occurred. The crater was first found in 2008 at about 40 km off the cost of NW Scotland by researcher...
Magnetism found in Earth's mantle
New evidence come to challenge the current belief that the Earth's mantle is regarded as non-magnetic domain. The study was recently published in Nature Journal and demonstrates that hematite (Fe₂O₃)...
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PLAXIS Online Training: Analysis of Suction Buckets
Another PLAXIS online training has been scheduled for the 27th of June. This online training will demonstrate the practical Use of PLAXIS 3D for the Analysis of Suction Buckets in OC Clay. The presen...
Triaxial Sample Preparation Items
Humboldt has an extensive inventory of all the tools and consumables used for preparing soil samples for triaxial testing. All products adhere to ASTM standards: ASTM D2850, ASTM D2166, ASTM D4767. T...
Shaft Area Profile Evaluator (SHAPE) by Pile Dynamics
Drilled shafts are rarely ideal cylinders and irregularities in the shaft construction can affect shaft performance. Shaft Area Profile Evaluator (SHAPE) is the latest addition to Pile Dynamics exten...
A Portable & Low-Cost Solution For Field Or Lab Testing
Unconfined soil testers allow for quick and accurate determinations of unconfined compressive strength of cohesive soils in intact, remolded or reconstituted condition in the field or lab. Humboldt'...
Virtual tour of Keller's remarkable geotechnical projects
14 remarkable structures that addressed geotechnical challenges along with the solutions provided by Keller and fellow companies are presented in their 2019 virtual calendar. Hayward Baker was occup...
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What is geotechnical engineering? People in the streets answer
Let's see a wide range of answers about how common people perceive the term "geotechnics." Geotechnical engineering involves numerous scientific fields including soil and rock mechanics, hydrogeolo...
Upcoming Events
Practical Use of PLAXIS 3D for the Analysis of Suction Buckets
This online training will demonstrate the practical use of Plaxis 3D for the analysis of suction bucket in OC Clay. The presentation will solely focus on setting up a PLAXIS 3D FE model of a suction...
Fifth World Landslide Forum Third International Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics DFI 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations 2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization 4th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (4th ICTG) 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics - IACMAG Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground - TC204 Cambridge 2020 International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education
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Publications
Handbook for Marine Geotechnical Engineering Anisotropy of undrained shear strength in selected cohesive soil Dynamic rock tests using split Hopkinson (Kolsky) bar system - A review Numerical estimates of the maximum sustainable pore pressure inanticline formations using the tensor based concept of porepressure-stress coupling Review of methods for predicting in situ volume change movementof expansive soil over time Stability analysis of large-scale stope using stage subsequent filling mining method in Sijiaying iron mine Some modifications to the process of discontinuous deformationanalysis Modeling and numerical analysis of granite rock specimen undermechanical loading and fire Fracture development around deep underground excavations: Insightsfrom FDEM modelling 3D random Voronoi grain-based models for simulation of brittle rockdamage and fabric-guided micro-fracturing
Education
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...
Soil as a three-phase System
Soil deposits consist of the soil particles and the void space between the particles. Soil mass is generally referred to as three-phase system because it consists of solid particles, liquid, and...
Top 10 Introductory Papers on Macroscopic Soil Plasticity Constitutive Modelling
Top Ten Introductory Papers in Macroscopic Soil Plasticity Constitutive Modelling by Professor Yannis F. Dafalias, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis...
Top 10 papers on Active Faulting
List compiled: July 2005 by Robert H. Sydnor, CEG 968, Engineering Geologist, Seismologist, Hydrogeologist. Bonilla, Manuel G., and Lienkaemper, James J., 1991, Factors affecting the recognition of...
Top 10 papers on the properties of Municipal Solid-Waste
Suggested by Dr. Kavazanjian, E., and Dr. Matasovic, N., Geosyntec Consultants, Huntington Beach, California 92648. List compiled in January 2003 Top 10 papers in Alphabetical Order Augello, A.J., Ma...
Books
2018 Geotechnical Business Directory
This unique annual business directory includes 8,000+ professionals and 600+ 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...