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Breached Chinese lake dike to be sealed by Tuesday noon
- Jul, 05, 2024
- Levees Erosion Seepage Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- China, Yueyang
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
On Friday, July 5, a 10-meter breach occurred on a dike along China’s second largest freshwater lake, Dongting Lake, which had quickly widened to 226 meters by the next day. Restoration work on the...
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Leveraging ShapeArray for wireless automated remote deformation monitoring
- Jul, 01, 2024
- Tailings Dams Instrumentation Engineering Geology Tunneling Slope Stability Mining Levees News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Wireless automated remote deformation monitoring is transforming how engineers collect data to ensure the safety and durability of their projects. Through a network of interconnected technology, th...
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Flooding leaves Minnesota dam in imminent failure condition after abutment partially fails
- Jun, 24, 2024
- Dam Engineering Levees Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- United States, Minnesota, Mankato
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
Southern Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam, located in the Blue Earth River near the town of Mankato, is in imminent failure condition due to flooding, according to Blue Earth County officials. Furthermore, t...
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Why Run PLAXIS 3D Analysis?
- Jun, 07, 2021
- Finite Element / Finite Difference News On Software Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Foundation Design / Construction Geoenvironmental Engineering Soil Structure Interaction Seismic Slope Stability Liquefaction Engineering Groundwater & Seepage Landslides Levees Mining Slope Stability Analysis Soil Behavior Modeling Tunneling Underground Structures Visualization
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Most geotechnical engineers use FEA software packages for their geotechnical design. It is especially useful for performance-based design or in situations when strong structure interaction is taking...
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62,163 paper downloads in 2020 for the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories!
- Jan, 13, 2021
- Other Geotechnical News On Publications Dam Engineering Data Management Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Energy Geotechnics Engineering Geology Forensics Erosion Foundation Design / Construction Geo-Energy Geoenvironmental Engineering Geomatics Geomorphology Geophysics Geosynthetics Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Ground Improvement Green Infrastructure Groundwater & Seepage Instrumentation Landslides Laboratory Testing Levees Mining Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Offshore Geotechnics Railway Geotechnics Ports Residual Soils Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Risk & Reliability Rock Engineering Slope Stability Soil Dynamics Soil Mechanics Structural Geology Underground Structures Tunneling Engineering Seismology Visualization Transportation Geotechnics News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Alexandros Tsavalas
The ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering CaseHistories is proud to announce that 62,163 papers were downloaded in 2020. The International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories is an off...
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Vol. 5, Issue 2 of the IJGCH has been released!
- Mar, 11, 2020
- Deep Foundations Dam Engineering Levees News On Publications
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
We are pleased to announce the Issue #2 of Volume #5 of the International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, an official Journal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnica...
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Nebraska dam partially collapses after extreme flooding
- Mar, 19, 2019
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Concrete / Rollercrete Dams Levees Concrete / Rollercrete Dams Levees
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Unprecedented flooding in Nebraska has caused the partial failure of Spencer dam. The Midwestern United States have recently suffered extreme flooding. High river levels were reported in more than...
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Innovative solution that prevents ash flow from polluting a nearby river during a seismic event by Hayward Baker
- Jan, 24, 2019
- News On Projects / Industry Seismic Ground Improvement Levees
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In a location where soil instability could have resulted in ash flowing into a nearby river, Hayward Baker provided an innovative solution that improved soil conditions to prevent pollution during a...
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Hayward Baker will be at " Dam Safety 2017 "
Come and visit Hayward Baker at Dam Safety 2017 at J.W. Marriott San Antonio Hill Country, San Antonio, TX, on September 10-14 2017. Dam Safety 2017 is the leading conference in the United States...
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Reconnaissance Report on 2016 M 5.8 Pawnee, Oklahoma Earthquake announced
- Oct, 27, 2016
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Liquefaction Engineering Dam Engineering Levees Settlements Earthquake Reconnaissance
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, just published the reconnaissance report of the 2016 M 5.8 Pawnee, Oklahoma earthq...
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