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Potential $37 billion rare earth mineral deposit found in Wyoming mine

An old coal mine in rural Wyoming was recently found to contain deposits of rare earth minerals that could be worth up to $37 billion. Brook Mine is located near the city of Sheridan and was acquire...

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Norway’s parliament strikes deal backing deep-sea mining in the Arctic Ocean

Norway’s minority government made a deal with two large opposition parties on Tuesday, December 5, to open seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic Ocean, despite heavy opposition. The amended versi...

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New study investigates partial replacement of Portland cement with waste London Clay

A new paper titled “Reutilising waste clays from tunnelling operations as a cement replacement material in concrete - An innovative circular approach” by Kanavaris, F., et al., discusses the effectiv...

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Study finds that geothermal energy could be harnessed from underground car parks

A study published earlier this year at the Science of the Total Environment journal deducted that heat trapped in underground car parks can be retrieved in the form of geothermal energy. Furthermore...

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62nd Rankine Lecture title and outline announced

It was recently announced by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) that the 62nd Ranking Lecture will take place on the 13th of March 2024, at Imperial College London. As was made known in Marc...

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Introduction to Foundation Engineering using Terzaghi’s Bearing Capacity Equation

Helical pile foundation design is an engineering science, thanks in part to the work of Austrian mechanical engineer Karl von Terzaghi. Learn more about using his equation in this introduction to fou...

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Dr. Paul W. Mayne’s 14th Athenian Lecture on Geotechnical Engineering now available on YouTube

Dr. Paul W. Mayne recently gave the 14th Athenian Lecture on Geotechnical Engineering on October 4, which took place in Athens, Greece, and was titled "Geotechnical Site Characterization Using Shear...

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New paper explains the 1650 tsunamigenic eruption of Aegean Sea’s Kolumbo volcano

A new paper titled “Cascading events during the 1650 tsunamigenic eruption of Kolumbo volcano” was published on the 26th of October in the Nature Communications journal. Kolumbo is an underwater vol...

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Finite elements and machine learning combined in a case study example

We recently attended the presentation of a conference paper titled “Long-term Deformations of a Highway Trial Embankment: Case Study Example with Combination of Finite Elements and Machine Learning”...

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Prof. J. G. Zornberg’s lecture “Geosynthetic Applications in Railways and Roadways” available on YouTube

Prof. J. G. Zornberg, from the University of Texas at Austin, gave his lecture “Geosynthetic Applications in Railways and Roadways” on the 5th of October in Athens, Greece, during the 9th Panhellenic...

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