After the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, the reactors at TEPCO’s nuclear facility began leaking radioactive groundwater. The plan to contain the contamination is to use ground freezing to construct an "ice wall" to cutoff the flow. […]
Congratulations to Geocomp Corporation on their 30 year anniversary. Geocomp provides design & consulting, instrumentation and monitoring, lab testing equipment and products, and high-end lab testing services to the geotechnical industry. Find out more about […]
This is the first time I have heard of this type of consolidation/permeability testing. I won’t try to summarize myself, here’s a bit of a description from their newsletter: Hydraulic consolidation cells, a.k.a. Rowe-Braden consolidation […]
At last month’s Earth Retention Conference, ER2010, there were many references to the second ER conference in 1990. One paper from that proceedings that garnered many mentions and was referenced by several at this year’s […]
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