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NZGS Looking For Comments on Slope Stability Document

April 30, 2025 rockman 0

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 Goodman, legendary rock mechanics professor from Berkeley

In Memoriam: Richard Goodman (1935-2025)

April 7, 2025 rockman 0

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 […]

BlockSync block model in Leapfrog showing estimated gold grade variability alongside drilling

Introducing Seequent Evo: Redefining Geoscience Collaboration and Data Management for Faster and Smarter Decision-Making

March 7, 2025 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

Engineers Need to Appreciate Their Value

February 21, 2025 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

GeoPrac.net President Randy Post around the time of the first GeoPrac post. That's his oldest daughter who is now in college!

18th Anniversary of GeoPrac…and I’m Tired

February 20, 2025 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

Sumela Monestary in 2009, prior to rockfall mitigation

Sumela Monestary Rockfall Mitigation

September 23, 2024 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

Speargun Projectile Penetrometer – Yes Please!

August 29, 2024 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

An AI Chat with Terzaghi?

August 28, 2024 rockman Comments Off

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? […]

3D subsurface data for a USACE Dam Project

Dataforensics and USACE are Bentley Award Finalists for Subsurface Modeling

August 26, 2024 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

Landslide Dam and Breach in BC

August 25, 2024 rockman Comments Off

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 […]