Every year, the American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has a photo contest called Faces of Transportation. This year’s top winners had a strong geo-engineering theme. A photo of the Caldecott Fourth Bore breakthrough took home the grand prize, and a photo of a Bulldozer Clearing a Landslide on I-73 in Tennessee took home the People’s Choice Award. [Source: AASHTO. Image: facesoftransportation.org]
Naresh C. Samtani, PE, PhD has contributed his second in a series of articles on LRFD for geotechnical engineering titled "LRFD for Substructures – Concept of Failure and Reliability Index".
The 2-year process of excavating the 3,389 foot long fourth bore of CALTRANS’ Caldecott Tunnel is nearly complete. The tunnel is anticipated to be put into service in 2013 to help relieve a major traffic […]
Maybe I missed this when it first happened, but I recently saw that AASHTO’s Standard Specifications for Transportation Materials and Methods of Sampling and Testing is no longer being offered as a printed book but […]
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