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...
Read MoreLake 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,...
Read MoreJean-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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreGeoengineer.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...
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