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Side Hill Retaining Walls – Part 2
In this part 2 of 2, various types of retaining walls are examined as possible alternatives in a side-hill retaining wall situation. These include conventional wall types such as CIP walls, MSE walls, gravity walls and soldier pile walls and some less conventional approaches such as lighweight concrete fill, hybrid soil-nail and geofoam wall systems, ground improvement and micropile walls.
Part 1 of this Side Hill Retaining Wall article covered the definition, significance, problems and failure modes, investigation techniques, analysis, and construction considerations of side hill walls. A PDF version is now available for download as well. Click through for the article and the download link!
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Fugro UK offers Free Courses to Consultants and Engineers
Fugro is offering free 1, 2 and 3-day classes on water investigation techniques, cone penetration testing, and engineering and environmental geophysics at several UK locations in the coming months. The water services course had it’s […]
Geologic Hazards
Video of a landslide striking and derailing a freight train near Seattle
I think the tile says it all. Check out this amazing video of a train derailed by a ‘small’ landslide. [Source: Landslide Blog]