Failing bluffs, shoreline erosion, landslides, and other geohazards can dangerously threaten transportation and require a rapid emergency response for public safety and to minimize the impact on the...
It was recently announced that the Los Angeles Metro celebrated the tunneling completion of its 9-mile D Line/Purple Line extension on April 2, 2024. Furthermore, tunneling for the Purple Line Extens...
With years of experience in developing advanced search techniques, Rocscience is now expanding their list of search methods with the development of the Intelligent Search for Slide3, which will mak...
Landslides caused widespread destruction in Indonesia over the weekend, hitting villages on the Sulawesi island, and claiming the lives of at least 18 people. Officials announced on Monday, April 15,...
CHANCE Foundation Solutions published an interesting paper titled "Preservation of Historic Structures Using Screw-Pile Foundations" that includes methodology and case studies of screw-pile foundatio...
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The C$13 billion Eglinton Crosstown is a new 19km light-rail line that extends Toronto’s public transport system west, adding 25 stations and creating commuter links with the city’s subway and bus ro...
The highly traveled US 340 in West Virginia is back open after a much-needed safety upgrade. Led by Access Limited , a leading rockfall mitigation firm, and Triton Construction Inc., a top Heavy/High...
As RocSlope3 and RocFall3 continue to evolve, this article looks at the exciting possibilities that lie ahead with the potential integrations between them. Rock slope failures, such as structurally-c...
GeoStabilization International wins the 2023 Best of the Best Award in Specialty Construction from Engineering News-Record (ENR) for innovative stabilization work at a Maryland quarry. The company wa...
Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, announced that effective July 1, 2024, Greg Bentley will transition from Bentley Systems’ CEO to Executiv...
GeoWorld, the biggest online platform for geotechnical engineers, is excited to announce the development and launch of its new mobile app, which is now accessible on both Android and iOS devices! Th...
Join Keller and the Geo-Institute for a 5 part series this spring and summer on sustainability in geotechnical engineering! We kick things off on April 16 with Kimberly Martin of Keller! Kimberly's t...
Lecture date: Friday April 19, 9:00-10:00AM PST "The future of Infrastructure today!” is a monthly webinar series under the Auspices of the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (https://smarti...
The Mohr-Coulomb, or Linear-Elastic Perfectly-Plastic model, is the second simplest constitutive material model that one can use. This model utilizes the concept of linear elasticity, based on H...
The Linear Elastic Material Model is the simplest, most basic form of a constitutive model that one can use. This model is based on Hooke’s Law, which was first formulated by the English polymat...
Acknowledgement: This page has been reproduced from P. K. Robertson, K. Cabal, Guide To Cone Penetration Testing, 7th Edition. Gregg Drilling LLC, 2022 with permission from P. K. Robertson. Nume...
James (Jim) K. Mitchell passed away peacefully at home in Massachusetts on December 17, 2023. The following is an obituary written by Rick Mitchell, Russell Green, and Kenichi Soga: Jim was born...
As discussed in Mechanics of Slope Stability, the most widely used approach for assessing both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional slope stability is the Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM), i.e., ...
We are very happy to share with you a rare tape, which includes recordings of Karl von Terzaghi and Ralph Peck. The introduction was recorded by Dr. Ralph B. Peck at his home in Urbana, Illinois on A...
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This unique annual business directory includes 32,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies and organizations in the geotechnical engineering profession. Powered by GeoWorld, the professional network fo...
The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by...
Over the last 50 years there has been rapid development of construction techniques, analytical methods and materials for use in ground engineering. One of the major techniques which has been developed...
