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Sumela Monestary Rockfall Mitigation
September 23, 2024 Comments Off on Sumela Monestary Rockfall MitigationThe Sumela Monastery in the Trabzon Province of Turkey dates to about 386 AD. This iconic building of great historical and cultural significance was founded by Greek Orthodox monks but has been an object of [...] -
Speargun Projectile Penetrometer – Yes Please!
August 29, 2024 Comments Off on Speargun Projectile Penetrometer – Yes Please!The “speargun projectile penetrometer” (SPP) is sure to be on every geotechnical engineer’s Christmas list! PhD student Junlin Rong and his advisor, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering Majid Nazem, both of RMIT University, were the lead [...] -
An AI Chat with Terzaghi?
August 28, 2024 Comments Off on An AI Chat with Terzaghi?What would you ask Karl Terzaghi if you could talk to him? Maybe how he came up with his famous effective stress principles? What did he think of Ralph Peck? Duck Face or Kissy Face? [...] -
Dataforensics and USACE are Bentley Award Finalists for Subsurface Modeling
August 26, 2024 Comments Off on Dataforensics and USACE are Bentley Award Finalists for Subsurface ModelingThe United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has partnered with Dataforensics to implement an enterprise subsurface data management system that will provide a myriad of benefits across their organization. The project involved the digitization of millions [...] -
Landslide Dam and Breach in BC
August 25, 2024 Comments Off on Landslide Dam and Breach in BCA landslide blocked the Chilcotin River in BC, Canada about 285 km north of Vancouver on July 30, 2024 and subsequently breached on August 5, 2024. The landslide dam breach raised the level of the [...] -
Deep Injections Arrest Settlement of Tilt-Up Building and Retaining Wall
July 31, 2024 Comments Off on Deep Injections Arrest Settlement of Tilt-Up Building and Retaining WallSlabJack Geotechnical recently tackled a challenging project in Everett, Washington, where a two-year-old tilt-up panel building faced serious subsidence issues. The building, which featured a 30-foot fill CMU block retaining wall, had settled by 2.5 [...] -
The Eagle Has Sunken Into the Lunar Surface
July 21, 2024 Comments Off on The Eagle Has Sunken Into the Lunar SurfaceDid you know there were geotechnical engineers evaluating the bearing capacity and settlement potential of the lunar surface for the Apollo 11 mission? There were some prominent scientists in NASA at the time that thought [...] -
GEO5 2024 Update Released
June 10, 2024 Comments Off on GEO5 2024 Update ReleasedThe geotechnical software program, GEO5, has recently been updated with a host of new features as part of their mid-year 2024 update. This includes a significant update to their Prefab Wall program for modeling modular [...] -
Rocscience to Honor Harry Poulos
May 1, 2024 Comments Off on Rocscience to Honor Harry PoulosGeotechnical software company Rocscience will present Professor Harry Poulos with a Lifetime Achievement Award at their 2025 Conference in Sydney. The Rocscience International Conference 2025 (RIC2025) will be held April 6-8, 2025 and will be [...] -
2023 Black’s Beach Landslide Video – EPIC!
April 29, 2024 Comments Off on 2023 Black’s Beach Landslide Video – EPIC!I recently came across some a fascinating EPIC video that captured a landslide more or less from start to finish, a span of around 6 minutes. The landslide occurred in San Diego County, California at [...]
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