Another case study from RetainingWallExpert.com, this one for the failure of a 38-ft high geogrid-reinforced modular block MSE retaining wall. They note that the failure of the retaining wall follows their typical recipe, ‘Just Add Water’. The wall was reconstructed with most of the same blocks, but with better backfill and better attention to drainage and geogrid configuration. [Source: RetainingWallExpert.com. Image: RetainingWallExpert.com]
In July of 2005, cracks began forming in the concrete dam that created Duke Lake in Ryerson Station State Park in Pennsylvania that required officials to drain the 62-acre lake. The state’s Department of Environmental […]
Here’s a press release from Rensselaer about their students winning the MSE wall competition at the Geo-Frontiers conference. Congratulations guys! [Source: Rensselaer via ASCE SmartBrief. Image: RPI]
Maccaferri, a manufacturer of geogrid, gabion, rockfall protection, and other geoconstruction products is offering a series of webinars. On November 8, the topic will be ‘Advancing Maccaferri Geosynthetics’. On November 15, the topic will be […]
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