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Geotechnical Engineering finalists for the Year in Infrastructure 2020 by Bentley Systems
- Sep, 24, 2020
- Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Foundation Design / Construction Green Infrastructure Offshore Geotechnics Ports Railway Geotechnics Risk & Reliability Rock Mechanics Soil Mechanics Tunneling Underground Structures Pavement News On Events
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced the...
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Advantages of pseudo-3D consolidation analysis with SVSOLID, SVFLUX
- Sep, 10, 2020
- Dam Engineering Tailings Dams News On Software Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Constitutive Modeling / Soil Behavior Soil Mechanics Soil Behavior Modeling
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Tailings Management Facilities (TMFs) require the numerical modeling of large-strain consolidation to represent the release of water with time. Such numerical modeling in the state of practice has tr...
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New freeware on stress and settlement modelling
- Sep, 09, 2020
- Settlements News On Software Shallow Foundations Soil Mechanics Soil Behavior Modeling
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
One of the first things geotechnical engineers learn in foundation engineering is stress distribution under the footings and/or behind retaining walls. We have all learned about stress bulb going to...
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A Standard Penetration Test (SPT) Correlations Software with more than 300 SPT correlations
- Jun, 18, 2020
- Standard Penetration Testing (Spt) Foundation Design / Construction Shallow Foundations Site Characterization & In-Situ Testing (General) Soil Mechanics News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
NovoTech has gone through more than 70 published papers and geotechnical reference books to collect over 300 SPT correlations with 20 soil properties, correction factors, bearing capacity, and settle...
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Massive landslide sweeps away houses in Norway
- Jun, 03, 2020
- Landslides Soil Mechanics Laboratory Testing News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Norway
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Eight residences have been swept away by a vast landslide that struck in Norway. The incident occurred on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, at Kråknes, Alta, a municipality in northern Norway. The landslide s...
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Submit your geotechnical project for the Year in Infrastructure (YII) 2020 Awards
- Feb, 25, 2020
- Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Foundation Design / Construction Green Infrastructure Railway Geotechnics Pavement Offshore Geotechnics Ports Risk & Reliability Rock Mechanics Soil Mechanics Tunneling Underground Structures News On Events News On Awards
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, to be held from October 12-15 in Vancouver Conversion Centre will conclude with the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards gala and ceremony, where the winners...
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Explore NovoTech's software and get 35% off your next purchase!
- Feb, 06, 2020
- Site Characterization & In-Situ Testing (General) Data Management Soil Mechanics News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Novo Tech designs affordable software tools that augment engineering judgment. They bring geotechnical software tools to the next level by implementing an application framework with the capability to...
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Sinkholes open in New Jersey's beach
- Oct, 09, 2019
- Soil Mechanics Settlements News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, New Jersey, Sea Bright
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
About 12 sinkholes have opened in Sea Bright beach, located in New Jersey, during the past days. The sinkholes that are up to 1 meter wide and deep, appeared on the beach after Subtropical Storm Meli...
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Rice irrigation affected a massive, earthquake-induced landslide in Indonesia
- Oct, 10, 2019
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Soil Mechanics Liquefaction Engineering News On Research / Academia News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Indonesia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Back in 2018, massive landslides were triggered after a Mw 7,5 earthquake struck the city of Palu, Indonesia. According to a new study, published in Nature Journal, rice irrigation may have exacerbat...
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Soil hydraulic properties affected by climate change
- Sep, 17, 2019
- Soil Mechanics Erosion News On Research / Academia
- United States, Kansas, Manhattan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
According to a new study, published in the journal Science Advances, soil hydraulic properties can be affected by altered precipitation caused by climate change. The impact of climate change could re...
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