2015 Seed Lecture – Peter Robertson on Liquefaction

June 24, 2015 rockman Available Resources Comments Off on 2015 Seed Lecture – Peter Robertson on Liquefaction

Peter K. Robertson, Ph.D., P.Eng, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Technical Advisor, Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc. is the 2015 recipient of the H. Bolton Seed Medal for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, or practice in geotechnical engineering. He presented his keynote lecture at the 2015 IFCEE Conference in San Antonio. The title of the presentation was Evaluation of Soil Liquefaction – How Far Have We Come in the Past 30 Years?

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