A little girl died and 4 members of her family were injured after a rockfall was triggered in Glacier National Park, located on the Canada–United States border in Montana. The incident occurred on Au...
Hurricane Sandy hit the coastline of New Jersey at the end of October 2012, causing millions of dollars in damages including 750 homes impacted by the storm in Port Monmouth township, New Jersey. The...
A large section of a sandstone cliff suddenly collapsed into Lake Superior, located in northern Michigan, barely missing a group of kayakers on Monday, August 10, 2019. The kayakers that were taking...
GeoWorld, the biggest online platform for geotechnical engineers, is excited to announce the publication of the eighth issue of "Geo-Trends Review" magazine. The eighth issue was just distributed a...
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced on...
Bender elements allow you to measure the maximum shear modulus (Gmax) of a soil sample to evaluate its stiffness. Gmax (typically with shear strain levels of about 0.001%) is a key parameter in the l...
A catastrophic landslide affected the road between Bogor and Cianjur two months before the annual Indonesian Homecoming Festival in West Java. Τhe already terrible traffic situation on West Java’s ma...
Humboldt’s new Load Frame, Grand Loader (HM-5040), is designed to handle multiple applications from road construction to high-volume commercial and educational laboratories, which require higher pres...
Robinson Landing is a $185 million, mixed-use development that covers a full city block on the Potomac River waterfront in Alexandria, VA. Despite the challenges of working on the Potomac River adjac...
Pile Dynamics Analyzer – Dynamic Load Tester (PDA-DLT) was designed specifically for quality assurance testing of drilled foundations, including drilled shafts, bored piles, ACIP and CFA piles. The P...
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Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference, will be held this year, October 21 through 24, in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Conference Center. Presented by Bentley Institute, the...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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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...
