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Available ResourcesMapping 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 [...] -
Press ReleasesChristchurch, 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 [...] -
Press ReleasesHawthorne, 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, [...] -
Slope StabilityThe 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 [...] -
Available ResourcesGeotechnical 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 [...] -
FailuresA 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 [...] -
Ground ImprovementRocscience 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! […]
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Press ReleasesNewswise — 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 [...] -
ConferencesThe Geo-Institute held another fantastic Geo-Congress in Los Angeles two weeks ago. They always host some of the biggest names in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, featuring them in keynote lectures and award lectures named after [...] -
Slope StabilitySlide3 has the most advanced searching capabilities for identifying slip surfaces out of any 3D limit equilibrium program, and it’s only getting better with the upcoming release. Introducing the New Spline Search Surface The search process [...]
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FeaturedHanover, MD, June 16, 2022 — Keller announces new branch and area managers in North America. Ray Franz was promoted to Area Manager of Northern California. With over 30 years of experience in geotechnical consulting and specialty [...] -
Available ResourcesThe FHWA’s Advanced Geotechnical Methods in Exploration (A-GaME) series of webinars is part of their Every Day Counts Initiative. For the past year and a half or so, they have been organizing these excellent webinars [...] -
Available ResourcesThe Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) has a new video / podcast series called DFI’s Rumble where they pit two representatives from the foundation industry who are typically on the oposite side of a project contract [...] -
Comings and GoingsWSP has entered into an agreement to acquire the Environment & Infrastructure business (“E&I”) of John Wood Group plc. (Wood). The Wood E&I group consists of approximately 6,000 experts in 10 countries, that originated from [...] -
FeaturedGeotechnical software company Rocscience announced the launch of a new cloud-based borehole data management software called RSLog. This web application can process geotechnical field and lab data, and run engineering analyses online. Some of the [...] -
Available ResourcesThe March/April issue of Deep Foundation Magazine has an interesting article on deep soil mixing in Poland. The article is by Michał Topolnicki of Keller Polska, and is based on his keynote lecture presented at [...] -
Available ResourcesDebris flows are a significant geologic hazard that affect communities around the world. Their destructive potential has been evident in North America in recent years, but the Swiss have been at the forefront of debris [...]
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