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Michigan dam failures raise concerns about United States deteriorating infrastructure

On May 19, 2020, two dams in Michigan breached causing extensive flooding and infrastructure damage, and raising questions about the United States deteriorating dam structures. Both earth dams were l...

Texas Lake Dunlap dam collapse

Lake Dunlap dam, located near New Braunfels, Texas, experienced a spillgate failure on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The collapse caused a large quantity of water to be driven downstream and, as a result,...

Jean-Louis Briaud, past President of ISSMGE & Geo-Institute, running for President of ASCE

Jean-Louis Briaud, a geotechnical Professor at Texas A&M is running for President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). It is not often that a geotechnical engineer is running for Pr...

Living with Shrink-Swell Soils: A what-to-do pamphlet for home-owners, prepared by ASCE Geo-Institute

Mar, 01, 2016
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Authored by: Geoengineer.org

The Shallow Foundation Technical Committee of the ASCE Geo-Institute released in February one page pamphlet for homeowners whose house is constructed on expansive soils. The pamphlet was written f...

Gregg Drilling: Dr. Robertson gives Seed lecture at ASCE

Geoengineer.org is pleased to present an 80 minutes Lecture on "Evaluation of Soil Liquefaction – How Far Have We Come in the Past 30 Years?" presented by Dr. Peter K. Robertson. Dr. Robertson was...