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 […]
What would you ask Karl Terzaghi if you could talk to him? Maybe how he came up with his famous effective stress principles? What did he think of Ralph Peck? Duck Face or Kissy Face? […]
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has partnered with Dataforensics to implement an enterprise subsurface data management system that will provide a myriad of benefits across their organization. The project involved the digitization of millions […]
A landslide blocked the Chilcotin River in BC, Canada about 285 km north of Vancouver on July 30, 2024 and subsequently breached on August 5, 2024. The landslide dam breach raised the level of the […]
SlabJack Geotechnical recently tackled a challenging project in Everett, Washington, where a two-year-old tilt-up panel building faced serious subsidence issues. The building, which featured a 30-foot fill CMU block retaining wall, had settled by 2.5 […]
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 […]
The geotechnical software program, GEO5, has recently been updated with a host of new features as part of their mid-year 2024 update. This includes a significant update to their Prefab Wall program for modeling modular […]
Geotechnical software company Rocscience will present Professor Harry Poulos with a Lifetime Achievement Award at their 2025 Conference in Sydney. The Rocscience International Conference 2025 (RIC2025) will be held April 6-8, 2025 and will be […]
I recently came across some a fascinating EPIC video that captured a landslide more or less from start to finish, a span of around 6 minutes. The landslide occurred in San Diego County, California at […]
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