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Geotechnical - Structural Tests Join Powers Protecting Amsterdam's Quay Heritage
- Dec, 02, 2024
- Retaining Walls Earth Retaining Structures Numerical & Constitutive Modeling News On Projects / Industry Other News
- Netherlands, Amsterdam
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Amsterdam’s historic quay walls, some over a century old, are undergoing advanced testing to ensure their safety and longevity. Recent field tests on a masonry quay wall in the city center have provi...
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New Chance® Installer Certification for Helical Tieback Anchors
- Nov, 01, 2024
- Earth Retaining Structures Retaining Walls News On Events Other News
- United States, Missouri, Centralia
- Authored by: Sarah Banks
Chance helical tieback anchors are a pre-engineered mechanical anchoring system providing stability for permanent and temporary shoring applications. Responding to industry demand for online installa...
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Geotechnical news recap of August 2024 now on YouTube!
- Sep, 02, 2024
- Other Geotechnical Transportation Geotechnics Railway Geotechnics Tunneling Landslides Retaining Walls News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
You can now find Geoengineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting geotechnical news of August 2024. Namely, these were: 1) High-Speed Prog...
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Retaining wall collapses onto cars in Vladivostok
- Aug, 24, 2024
- Retaining Walls Landslides Slope Stability News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Russia, Vladivostok
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
Several videos have recently emerged, showing a retaining wall collapsing onto parked cars in the city of Vladivostok, Russia. Furthermore, the event took place shortly before 10 o'clock on the mo...
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Driving excellence at Aston Martin Residences
- Jul, 12, 2024
- Foundation Design / Construction Deep Foundations Pile Foundations News On Projects / Industry Retaining Walls
- United States, Florida, Miami
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
As the high-profile Miami skyscraper celebrates its official opening, we look at back at how Keller provided a range of techniques and overcame numerous challenges to help create a modern masterpiece...
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Comparative Study of Embedded Wall Displacements Using Small-Strain Hardening Soil Model
- May, 03, 2024
- Retaining Walls Earth Retaining Structures Slope Stability News On Research / Academia News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Traditional analysis methods often fall short in addressing complex soil-structure interactions and non-linear soil behavior, but new research by Tzuri Eilat, Amichai Mitelman, Alison McQuillan and D...
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London’s South Dock Bridge Project
- Feb, 21, 2024
- Finite Element / Finite Difference Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Retaining Walls News On Awards News On Projects / Industry News On Software
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Designed as a bascule bridge with an overall span of 75 metres and a lifting span of 35 metres, Arcadis met the project’s unique architectural and engineering demands, together with innovative softwa...
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Video shows the moment soil nail wall collapses in Coquitlam, Canada
- Nov, 29, 2023
- Retaining Walls Other Geotechnical Risk & Reliability Earth Retaining Structures News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Coquitlam
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
The collapse of what appears to be a soil nail wall, used to retain a vertical excavation in Coquitlam, British Columbia, was caught on video on Wednesday, November 29. Furthermore, the failure occu...
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New Thread Bar Adapter from Chance Improves Tieback Installation Efficiency
- Jul, 10, 2023
- Deep Foundations Retaining Walls Earth Retaining Structures News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Sarah Banks
The Chance Universal Adapter allows square shaft helical piles to be connected directly to thread bar or all thread rods. In a tieback application, the adapter allows installers to attach thread bar...
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PLAXIS 2023.1 New release is out!
- Mar, 01, 2023
- Shallow Foundations Underground Structures Tunneling Rock Engineering Slope Stability Retaining Walls Deep Foundations Geosynthetics Finite Element / Finite Difference Ground Improvement Soil Mechanics News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The latest releases of PLAXIS marks our definitive transition to becoming part of Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, with some minor cosmetic changes and a change to the version numbering. Ben...
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