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Available ResourcesGeotechnical software company Rocscience will be hosting three free webinars on 3D slope stability modeling using their Slide3 program. Part 1 of the free webinar series will demonstrate the features of the new Slide3 software [...] -
NewsThank you to all GeoPrac.net visitors for a great year! Here is the most popular content of 2019. Many of these articles are “oldies but goodies”. Enjoy! Semi Crashes Into Geotechnical Drilling Site in Washington [...] -
NewsHawthorne, N.J. (January 16, 2020): DFI announces a call for entries for its 2020 Awards, which showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, teams and companies in the deep foundations industry. Deadline February [...] -
Available ResourcesThe November/December issue of Foundation Drilling Magazine by ADSC is now available. Check out the following stories: Malcolm Drilling Co., Inc. Oceanwide Center Wagman’s Innovative Redesign Nicholson and the Prairie Du Sac Dam Technical Feature Evaluations of [...] -
Available ResourcesThe ISSMGE hosted a webinar recently by Dr. Scott McDougall of the University of British Columbia on Landslide Runout Analysis. He presented an overview of the current state of the practice as well as the [...] -
Available ResourcesThe Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) has launched a new website at aegweb.org. The new website features a responsive design that is more user-friendly for tablets and mobile devices. As with their previous [...] -
FeaturedA house was completely crushed by a massive rockfall that is more of a cliff collapse than a proper rockfall. The event occurred on December 2, 2019 in the village of Les Mees, Alpes de [...] -
FailuresHeavy rain triggered a landslide or debris flow that destroyed a 30-meter span of a bridge on the A6 motorway between Savona and Turin on November 25. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries or [...] -
NewsMOUNT AIRY, NC—Three of NCFI’s geotechnical polyurethane materials, TerraThane 24-003, 24-010, and 24-042, now carry the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard 61 certification for safe use in and around [...] -
NewsDataforensics RAPID CPT Processor for HoleBASE SI is now available. You can now import CPT data from more than 32 different CPT manufacturer file formats directly into HoleBASE. No more manipulation of the raw data [...]
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A house was completely crushed by a massive rockfall that is more of a cliff collapse than a proper rockfall. The event occurred on December 2, 2019 in the village of Les Mees, Alpes de [...]
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Many of you may be familiar with the Geoprofessional Business Association’s (GBA’s) document “Important Information about This Geotechnical-Engineering Report.” In my practice, we include it as an appendix in almost every geotechnical report we produce. [...] -
October 17, 1989 at around 5 pm, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake known as the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area causing significant damage and loss of life. Many remember the fact that [...] -
In Louisville, KY a large pit, 40ft deep, 300 yards long x 150 yards wide was dug to build an overflow facility for the city’s combined stormwater and sewage systems. A substantial amount of this excavation [...] -
Bentley has been on the radar for geotechnical professionals lately with their recent acquisition of Keynetix, the makers of HoleBASE SI. All of us have been eagerly awaiting the next moves in how the company [...] -
Dr. Misko Cubrinovsky was the Ralph B. Peck Award winner at the 2019 Geo-Congress conference of the Geo-Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His lecture was on Observations and Findings from Christchurch related to the devastating 2011 [...] -
Heavy rain triggered a landslide or debris flow that destroyed a 30-meter span of a bridge on the A6 motorway between Savona and Turin on November 25. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries or [...]
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