A very nice collection of photos of geotechnical failures, geotechnical construction projects and methods. Put together by Ross W. Boulanger at UC Davis and James Michael Duncan from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg.
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Pipeline Geotechnics – Musings of an Offshore Geotechnical Engineer
Homepage and Blog of Neil Brown, a geotechnical engineer in the offshore industry. He is based in Stavanger, Norway. Visit Pipeline Geotechnics – Musings of an Offshore Geotechnical Engineer
Comings and Goings
Geo-Institute announces 2013 Award Winners
The Geo-Institute of ASCE announced their 2013 award winners in their November 2012 E-Update newsletter. They are: Stephen G. Wright, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE – H. Bolton Seed Medal John S. McCartney, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE– Arthur […]
Rockman's Ramblings
The Eagle Has Sunken Into the Lunar Surface
Did you know there were geotechnical engineers evaluating the bearing capacity and settlement potential of the lunar surface for the Apollo 11 mission? There were some prominent scientists in NASA at the time that thought […]