The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is soliciting abstracts on a broad range of topics for its 38th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Phoenix, Arizona on September 25-28, 2013. Although the submittal date for abstracts […]
The Mississippi Department of Transportation won a Bentley Be Inspired Award in late 2012 for their work to streamline their geotechnical data processes using gINT. Their work involved improving work flows for collection and processing […]
Super Storm Sandy was the most recent reminder of the dangers posed to building foundations by storm surge, waves, scour and erosion. The January 2013 issue of Civil Engineering Magazine by the ASCE has a […]
An engineered slope reported to be 43 meters (141 ft) high that was stabilized by what appears to be tie-back anchors experienced a massive failure at the end of 2012. Dr. Dave Petley of the […]
According to NCE, Keller has announced that it has acquired Canada-based geotechnical contractor Geo-Foundation Contractors in a deal valued at £5.7M (US$9.1M). The brief article notes that Geo-Foundation Contractors specializes in micro-piling, ground anchors, and […]
I think the tile says it all. Check out this amazing video of a train derailed by a ‘small’ landslide. [Source: Landslide Blog]
GeoPrac sponsor Dataforensics just tweeted a photo of their President, Scott Deaton showing off an early version of their pLog v7 software running on a Panasonic Toughpad ruggedized tablet. I know they are working hard […]
gINT can now export layer geometries to Plaxis 3d for finite element modeling. This new capability is currently available in a maintenance release of gINT v8i Ss1 but should be fully documented in gINT v8i […]
This editorial from well-known ASFE founder John Bachner struck a cord with me. He is passionate about geoprofessionals getting involved in their communities and giving back to the profession and sees that as one of […]
Sorry for the delay, I found some problems with my script that generates these statistics. Here are the most popular GeoPrac.net articles that were published during 2012. I have pro-rated the total number of hits based on how long they have been published. That might give a bit of an edge to articles published more recently, but the alternative would bias towards those articles published earlier in the year. At any rate, enjoy! P.S. – Sign up for the free GeoPrac.net monthly email newsletter in the next few days, and you’ll get the latest list of the top GeoPrac.net content of all time!
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