Missouri S&T (known as UM Rolla a while back) has a number of courses that are available through their YouTube channel. One such course is their GeoEng 341 course, Engineering Geology and Geotechnics taught by Dr. David Rogers. You can watch the entire series of 15 lectures totaling over 32 hours on You-Tube! Check out the first lecture below.
Geologic Hazards
Video: Helicopter Based Rock Scaling “Sledgehammer”
[Updated May 26, 2011] A new, cleaner, longer version of the video has surfaced on YouTube recently. You can see it embedded below. It includes some footage of attempts to "water bomb" the rock loose […]
Geologic Hazards
Video: LiDAR-Illuminating Earthquake Hazards
From YouTube: As part of a Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and OpenTopography collaboration, Sarah Robinson (ASU M.S. student) and Andrew Whitesides (USC undergraduate) – supported by SCEC’s ACCESS program (Advancement of Cyberinfrastructure Careers through […]
Project Related
Video: Hayward Baker’s Wet Soil Mixing at Community Memorial Hospital
To keep the loose soils beneath a planned hospital from liquefying and damaging the foundations during the design earthquake, Hayward Baker stabilized the site by performing wet soil mixing. In addition, HB installed tie down […]
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There are so many projects and engineers who could benefit from listening to Rogers. There is a science to it and identifiers that can tell the engineer how the soil has responded over time.