New Zealand volcano eruption: At least 5 dead
At least 5 people were reported dead after a volcano erupted in New Zealand's White Island on Monday, December 9, 2019. White Island is one of New Zealand's most active volcanoes that experienced an...
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Intensive design-phase pile test program for the I-480 Valley View Bridge project near Cleveland, Ohio by GRL
The I-480 Valley View Bridge project near Cleveland, Ohio involved the construction of a third bridge structure between two existing structures. The design-build team of Walsh Construction and CH2M (...
Keller returns to Egypt for the second phase of PVD project
Following the installation of more than 82.5 million meters of PVDs (Prefabricated Vertical Drains) in a vast industrial area near the city of Port Said in Egypt, Keller returns for the second phase...
Over 1,680 dams in the United States are considered to be high hazard
According to extended research conducted by the Associated Press, 1,688 dams located in 44 states and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico are in poor or unsatisfactory condition. In March 2019, Spence...
Rockfall in South African gold mine: 4 workers dead
4 mineworkers were found dead after a rockfall occurred in a gold mine located in Orkney, South Africa. The incident occurred on Friday, December 6, 2019. A rockfall triggered by a minor earthquake i...
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Get 15% off on the Plaxis Connect Edition until December 21st
By purchasing PLAXIS CONNECT Introductory Offer, until December 21st, 2019, you save 15%. With over 50 years of experience and hundreds of constitutive models, PLAXIS applications provide the support...
New pile monitoring system by Keller divisions
Two Keller divisions, GEO-Instruments and the Geotechnique, have been working together to develop a new, bespoke pile monitoring system on a prestigious project in the heart of the City of London. Th...
CONTROLS receives award at Geotehnika 2019
During the opening ceremony, CONTROLS Group was proud to be awarded for its long-time friendship relationship and technical cooperation with Geotechnical experts of Bosnia Herzegovina. On 23-25 Octob...
Bentley introduces OpenGround Cloud application
During the Year In Infrastructure Conference 2019 in Singapore, Bentley announced the release of OpenGround Cloud product, a new cloud service (available end of 2019) to store, manage, report, and sh...
IoT Advancements in Thermal Integrity Profiling
Thermal Integrity Profiling is a method that has been implemented in drilled shafts and bored piles to offer reliable integrity data for engineers. Shaft excavations have numerous variables to accoun...
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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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Standard Course on Computational Geotechnics- Schiphol
This international course has a long tradition in advanced geotechnical engineering. Each year it is well attended by participants from consulting and contracting companies, public work bodies and un...
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Publications
PAT TBM improving—a case of study to Metro São Paulo Effects of wall embedment on base heave failure arising from deep excavations in soft soils Collapse behaviour of large rectangular tunnel in cement-admixed soils Large-scale improvement of converting a Japan’s first subway station constructed by the shield tunneling method into that of an open-cut method: Kiba Station on the Tozai Line Ground response to tunnel construction for Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit Project Imposed longitudinal settlement on a cast-iron tunnel from the excavation of a new tunnel beneath Centrifuge modelling of shaft excavations in clay Field measurements of ground movements associated with circular shaft construction The role of building dimensions and position on the response of buildings to tunnelling subsidence: Centrifuge modelling The role of building position on the response of buildings to tunnelling subsidence: Numerical modelling
Education
Unconfined Compression Test
The Unconfined Compression Test is a laboratory test used to derive the Unconfirmed Compressive Strength (UCS) of a rock specimen. Unconfirmed Compressive Strength (UCS) stands for the maximum axia...
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...
Atterberg 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...
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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...