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Standards and Codes
UK railroad engineers now designing with Eurocodes
UK structural and geotechnical engineers have long used the British Standard codes for design of railroad bridges. Those days are now gone as all rail structures are required to use the Eurocode. This article is […]
Available Resources
2019 Osterberg Lecture by Samuel Paikowsky: Capacity Testing of Deep Foundations Successes and Pitfalls
Samuel Paikowsky, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and president of GeoDynamica Inc. delivered the 2019 DFI Osterberg Memorial Lecture at SuperPile ’19 in Seattle, May 2019. The title of […]
Failures
Drilled Shaft Rig Topples in Austin, Texas [Video]
An excavator mounted drill rig drilling shafts as part of a project to pass utilities under I-35 near 51st Street toppled over while trying to move in soft, rain soaked soil. The Austin Fire Department was able to extract the operator from the cab and he was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, a minor miracle. I’m not sure what the purpose of the drilled shafts were for. Since the project was for some kind of utility pipe jacking under the freeway, I’m speculating it was drilling holes for temporary shoring for the jacking pit or something along those lines. I’m sure OSHA will be looking into the incident. Video news story after the break. (Photo from Austin KXAN.com).