Engineering Geology

Hydraulic fracturing (HF) as an industrial process was introduced into the petroleum industry by a paper written by J.B. Clark of Stanolind Oil Company in 1949. It represented a major step forward i...

This project reviews statistical and physical approaches to coseismic landslide hazard modeling, more specifically, logistic regression analysis, back-propagation artificial neural network analysis,...

As global temperatures continue to spike, an introduction to extreme weather events has led to an increase in wildfires in the Western United States, and also to an increase in the frequency at whic...

       "There it is, take it." This is the famous line William Mulholland told the city mayor and the public after the grand opening of the LA aqueduct. Mulholland left Los Angeles with a promise to...

    The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the most famous constructions in the world. Its fame not only comes from the original trigger for its construction – to show the importance of this city after...

Hello, and welcome to my project report for CE179! My name is Victoria Lim, and I am a current senior at UC Berkeley, studying Civil and Environmental Engineering. In this report, I hope that you wi...

The history of micropiles stems over seven decades ago from Europe though widespread acceptance and standardization of the technology is more recent and has not matured for as long as its first docu...

Several advancements in tunneling have been made in the past century, especially in the area of submarine tunneling. As technology improves, such as computers and machinery, engineers have been able...

Though constructed with different materials and built in different sizes, dams share the same purpose of controlling water. This structure is utilized to hold back water which creates a reservoir wit...

[See a well-formatted PDF copy of our report here] Nuclear power is generated by splitting atoms to release the energy held in the nuclei at the core of those atoms. The advancement of nuclear techn...