Freeport Maine Culvert Failure and Road Collapse
Video by photojournalist Kevyn Fowler of WMTW. Thanks to Bob Cummings of Saguaro GeoServices, Inc. for the heads up.
Video: Freeport Maine Culvert Failure and Road Collapse
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Video: RPI Geotechnical Engineering Centrifuge
I stumbled across this video for the geotechnical engineering centrifuge at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Centrifuge testing is a popular way to economically test models at much higher loads and pressures than you would normally be able to in the laboratory. The goal is to more accurately represent the real world conditions. Click through for the video.
Failures
Subway Tunnel Collapse in Cologne Germany
Early indications are that a collapse of a subway tunnel station still under construction was to blame for the sinkhole that destroyed Cologne’s Historical Archive, home to documents dating back to 922 A.D. More info after the break. (Photo by DPA via Spiegel Online)
Failures
Coal Mining Company Ordered to pay $21M for Causing Crack in Pennsylvania Dam
In July of 2005, cracks began forming in the concrete dam that created Duke Lake in Ryerson Station State Park in Pennsylvania that required officials to drain the 62-acre lake. The state’s Department of Environmental […]