This is a really great little article that interviews Jonathan Bray, professor of civil engineering at Berkley. He describes geotechnical engineering for the layman as well as modern day earthquake engineering. He also briefly discusses some work being dome on using smart phone accelerometers to measure earthquake ground motion, an iShake app. [Source: Inside Bay Area. Image: Berkeley]
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ASCE G-I: Proposed “Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Practice”
September 15, 2009
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Most geotechs are familiar with the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (JGGE), one of the (if not the) premier journal in the industry. It’s published by the ASCE’s Geo-Institute (G-I) and accounts for about 20% of the revenue of the G-I organization.
The G-I’s President, Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, convened a task force in early 2009 to investigate if the JGGE is “adequately serving as a venue for practice oriented papers.” According to the final report from the Proposed "Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Practice" Task Force, the reason for the task force is that: