CEE 544-Soil-Site Improve

University	University of Michigan
Semester	Winter 2015
Course Type	Graduate
Assignments	6
Participating Students	6
Status	Archived

Assignments

Historical, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on Hydraulic Fracturing

Austin Boles

Historical, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on Hydraulic Fracturing

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...

Coseismic Landslide Hazard Modeling Methodologies

Jennifer Von Voigtlander

Coseismic Landslide Hazard Modeling Methodologies

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

Summary of Surface Blasting and Damages with Analysis of Two Mitigation Techniques – Presplit and Smooth Blasting

Charles Krolikowski

Summary of Surface Blasting and Damages with Analysis of Two Mitigation Techniques – Presplit and Smooth Blasting

Explosives have been used by humans as an effective tool since ancient times, typically in the art of war. Blasting, however, utilizes explosives in a constructive way by focusing the vast energy pr...

Landslides: Slope stability, triggers, failure dynamics, and morphology

Katherine Lowe

Landslides: Slope stability, triggers, failure dynamics, and morphology

This report provides a brief overview of the physics of landslides and overviews many types of landslides and triggers, with a focus on landslides triggered by earthquakes. I focus only on terrestri...

In Situ Shear Wave Velocity Measurements in Rocks

William Greenwood

In Situ Shear Wave Velocity Measurements in Rocks

This report contains a review of the in situ geophysical testing methods used to determine the shear wave velocity of geologic materials. Brief overviews of several geophysical techniques are provi...

Review of Polyurethane Resin Grouting for Rock Mass Stabilization

Clark Green

Review of Polyurethane Resin Grouting for Rock Mass Stabilization

This report provides a review of polyurethane resin (PUR) injection grouting as a technique for stabilization of rock masses. PUR is a subset of the polyurethane chemical grout category. PUR is...