The FHWA Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Center has issued a document to provide interim guidance on the implementation of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil or GRS Bridge Systems. From the foreward: Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) technology consists of […]
A massive, possibly 50 million cubic meter landslide occurred on Thursday in Kahramanmaraş Province of Turkey. Not too many details yet, but early reports had 9 miners missing and 1 killed. The landslide occurred in […]
The winter 2011 issue of the Deep Foundations Institute magazine profiles DBA founder Dan Brown, a very prominent figure in the geotechnical industry and one of the most well known experts in deep foundations. The […]
A new book that may be of interest to folks. See the Geoengineer.org link for more info. A personal account of the role played by Rudolph Glossop, one of the founders of geotechnical engineering in […]
Most geoengineers I know are comfortable using Excel’s curve fitting functionality on a Chart. Have you ever found yourself manually copying the coefficients from the resulting equation on the chart into cells to program the […]
Haiti One Year On… – Source: Natural Hazard Media Monitoring Design change to again delay Lake Mead project – Source: ReviewJournal.com via AGC SmartBrief Family member receives $100,000 for Logan, UT landslide loss – Source: […]
‘Dams Sector facilities provide a host of benefits, from flood protection to crop irrigation; however, the potential for their failure also presents a source of great danger with disastrous consequences. To avoid failures, it is […]
The notorious landslide-prone stretch of California Highway 1 at Devil’s slide has only about one more year until traffic bypasses it completely thanks to the twin bore tunnels that have just completed excavation. They still […]
On the Big Sur coatline, the Pitkins Curve area of California Highway 1 (the PCH) is undergoing some improvements to help alleviate landslides and roadway instability. National Driller magazine reports on the project in their […]
The massive 13-mile wastewater tunnel project known as Brightwater is approaching the final stretch of tunneling, but perhaps the most difficult. This portion of the project has already claimed one contractor’s slurry TBM and put […]
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