Geobrugg recently hit another milestone with a world record test on their RXE-12500 Rockfall Barrier. It absorbed a total of over 14,000 kJ of energy, with 12,500 kJ of impact energy taken by the system […]
I just had to highlight this cool geohazard instrumentation project undertaken by Landslide Technology (Cornforth Consultants). It involves installing instrumentation on several attenuator systems along the Ketchum-Challis Highway north of Stanley, ID for the FHWA. I […]
A new technical report on Cyclic Degradation in the Geotechnical Design of Wind Turbine Foundations has been released by the American Clean Power Association. The draft report reviews the behavior of foundation support geomaterials under […]
The New Zealand Geotechnical Society has been producing some excellent geotechnical reference and design guidance documents. Their most recent, Slope Stability Guidance Unit 3, was released this month in draft form, and they are looking […]
Richard E. Goodman, a distinguished faculty member at UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1994, passed away at the age of 90 in Anchorage, Alaska. His remarkable career and contributions to the fields of rock mechanics […]
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, today introduced Seequent Evo, a powerful cloud-based platform designed to help Seequent users, and the broader geoscience community, collaborate and manage data centrally for faster, smarter decision-making. Seequent Evo provides […]
We are at the end of National Engineer’s Week in the US, and as I was digging through the recesses of my 18 years of GeoPrac content, I came across a gem of an article […]
I’m tired, but I’ve never been more fulfilled in my career. I love being a geotechnical engineer, and I greatly enjoy giving back to my mentees and anyone who will listen to me. But I […]
The Sumela Monastery in the Trabzon Province of Turkey dates to about 386 AD. This iconic building of great historical and cultural significance was founded by Greek Orthodox monks but has been an object of […]
The “speargun projectile penetrometer” (SPP) is sure to be on every geotechnical engineer’s Christmas list! PhD student Junlin Rong and his advisor, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering Majid Nazem, both of RMIT University, were the lead […]
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