California’s iconic Highway 1 hugs the central coastline and Santa Lucia Mountains through its scenic Big Sur section. The bridges carrying cars and trucks over the many creeks and canyons are engineering marvels—Rocky Creek, Big […]
The GEO5 Data Collector Mobile App for Android and iOS is a new FREE option for mobile geotechnical data collection. It features two-way data transfer so you can lay out your boreholes in the GEO5 […]
Mapping rock mass structure is a key part of hard rock tunneling and underground mining. There have been a plethora of technological advances in 3D mapping and rock mass data extraction, but few are more […]
Christchurch, New Zealand, May 31, 2023 – Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, today introduces Leapfrog Energy, expanding the company’s offering to the energy industry to help solve the challenges of the rapidly evolving transition. Leapfrog Energy brings […]
Hawthorne, N.J. (May 23, 2023): Ken Jennings, the greatest Jeopardy! player of all time, Jeopardy! co-host and best-selling author, is presenting the Hal Hunt Lecture on Communications at DFI’s 48th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, […]
The Generalized Anisotropic strength type in Slide2 and Slide3 is the most flexible way to model anisotropic materials. Everything is in the user’s hands. Anisotropy Definition You can specify the direction of anisotropy either using an angle (dip and […]
Geotechnical consultant Gregg Korbin served on the Technical Advisory Board for Washington State DOT for the SR-99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel Project. He recently presented to the Vancouver Geotechnical Society on lessons learned from […]
A major landslide was captured on video narrowly missing piers for a viaduct under construction at the Yusufeli Dam site in Artvin, Turkey. The slide appears to be on an engineered cut slope benched into […]
Rocscience has introduced new advanced staging of stone columns in their popular Settle3 program. You can now vary stiffness of the columns with depth, applying them at different depths and stages. Read more in this contributed article by GeoPrac.net sponsor Rocscience! […]
Newswise — Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, president Kim Byung-suk), has successfully developed a “three-dimensional liquefaction hazard map” that visually presents ground liquefaction forecasts in the event of an earthquake. Liquefaction is […]
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