Website links, new publications in geotechnical engineering and engineering geology and Google Earth related information can be found in this section.
A few weeks back I was a panelist on a webinar with Bentley as part of their Year in Infrastructure (YII) conference. The webinar was titled “YII ACCELERATE: REALIZE the benefits of a connected data […]
The FHWA’s Advanced Geotechnical Methods in Exploration (A-GaME) initiative is part of their EDC-5 Everyday Counts program. The FHWA Resource Center is hosting a webinar on December 8 regarding A-GaME. See below for more info, […]
Rocscience has a suite of geotechnical software packages that are commonly used for slope stability analysis. At a Deep Foundations Institute virtual conference in August of 2020, a team from Rocscience participated in a panel […]
Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure (YII) 2020 conference may be over, but their Accelerate Webinar series of live and on-demand webinars are just getting going. For geotechnical engineers, the primary webinars of interest will be on […]
TRB has published a new Synthesis Report entitled Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring. From the official description: Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring technologies have been used to inform safety, operational, and treatment decisions for […]
Novo Tech has released Bubble 3D, a new freeware application for visualizing foundation stress and settlement distribution. It does not use Finite or Discrete elements, but instead, it discretizes the model into many soil elements […]
AASHTO bridge design specifications were updated this year, with the largest change to designs for Mechanically-Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls in more than 20 years. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, October 8, 2020 from […]
Geosyntec and Golder have teamed up with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) to produce a reference manual: “Guidelines for Management of Landslide Hazards for Pipelines“. This guidance document is the result of […]
In case you missed it, Dr. Bob Bachus from Geosyntec is this year’s Geo-Institute Cross-Country Lecturer. He gave a live presentation on the G-I’s Youtube channel recently on Geotechnical Data Management. Read more about Bob’s […]
We as geotechnical and geological engineers are in the midst of a data revolution. The way we collect, manage, and use data has changed dramatically over the past five to ten years, and I have […]
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