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Foundation Drilling Magazine November-December 2019

Foundation Drilling Magazine – November December Issue 2019

January 6, 2020 rockman Comments Off

The November/December issue of Foundation Drilling Magazine by ADSC is now available. Check out the following stories: Malcolm Drilling Co., Inc. Oceanwide Center Wagman’s Innovative Redesign Nicholson and the Prairie Du Sac Dam Technical Feature Evaluations of […]

Webinar: Landslide Runout Analysis Current Practice and Challenges

January 6, 2020 rockman Comments Off

The ISSMGE hosted a webinar recently by Dr. Scott McDougall of the University of British Columbia on Landslide Runout Analysis. He presented an overview of the current state of the practice as well as the […]

AEG Launches New Website

January 6, 2020 rockman Comments Off

The Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) has launched a new website at aegweb.org. The new website features a responsive design that is more user-friendly for tablets and mobile devices. As with their previous […]

2019 Peck Lecture, Misko Cubrinovsky – Observations and Findings from Christchurch

November 19, 2019 rockman Comments Off

Dr. Misko Cubrinovsky was the Ralph B. Peck Award winner at the 2019 Geo-Congress conference of the Geo-Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His lecture was on Observations and Findings from Christchurch related to the devastating 2011 […]

GBA Important Information About Your Geotechnical Report - Updated

GBA Updates One of Their Most Popular Geotechnical Resource Documents

October 17, 2019 rockman Comments Off

Many of you may be familiar with the Geoprofessional Business Association’s (GBA’s) document “Important Information about This Geotechnical-Engineering Report.” In my practice, we include it as an appendix in almost every geotechnical report we produce. […]

A Rare Film of Terzaghi, Casagrande, and Others

October 7, 2019 rockman Comments Off

GeoEngineer.org has gotten a hold of a rare video showing Karl Terzaghi on an outing with his wife Ruth Terzaghi, as well as Arthur Casagrande, Friedrich (Fritz) Schaffernak, Philipp Forchheimer, and some additional family members. […]

2019 Keller Calendar Fly-Through

August 15, 2019 rockman Comments Off

Keller / Hayward Baker’s calendars are very well known in the geotechnical world. In our industry, nearly all of our best work gets buried under the ground or never sees the light of day in […]

2019 Osterberg Lecture by Samuel Paikowsky: Capacity Testing of Deep Foundations Successes and Pitfalls

June 13, 2019 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

Tensar Triax geogrid with separation geotextile

Tensar’s SpectraPave Design Challenge

March 27, 2019 rockman Comments Off

Tensar is giving away a $500 Amazon gift card as part of their SpectraPave Design software challenge. All you have to do is download the free software for design of geogrid subgrade improvement beneath pavements, […]

Keynetix 50th Small Steps Webinar and it's The Big One

Keynetix Small Steps Webinar Number 50 – The Big One

February 28, 2019 rockman Comments Off

In the next Small Steps Series Webinar by Keynetix, they are celebrating a big milestone with their 50th Small Steps Webinar. In this special hour-long event, the whole Keynetix Webinar team will be brought together […]