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Video: 2014 GeoWall Competition

February 25, 2014 rockman Comments Off

GeoWall is a competition for geotechnical engineering students where they build model mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls (MSE walls). The walls are then tested with a series of design loads and their score is a […]

Video: Geo-Wall 2013 Competition

March 6, 2013 rockman Comments Off

The Geo-Wall competition is a student competition sponsored by the Geo-Institute of ASCE to build a model mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining wall that must stand up to simulated static, lateral and dynamic loading. The […]

Day 2 Geo-Congress Notes

March 5, 2013 rockman Comments Off

As I gear up for another great day of technical talks, networking and wonderful San Diego weather, here are a few thoughts from yesterday at Geo-Congress 2013. The morning started with two great keynote lectures. […]

Video Highlights of Day 1 of Geo-Congress

March 4, 2013 rockman Comments Off

By the official videographers of the conference, Magnus Media.

Beautiful grounds of the Town and Country Resort and Hotel in San Diego

Geo-Congress 2013 Conference Kicks Off in San Diego

March 4, 2013 rockman Comments Off

I arrived in beautiful San Diego, California today for the ASCE Geo-Institute Geo-Congress 2013 conference. It’s being held at the Town and Country Resort and Hotel located on Hotel Circle, and it’s not the typical […]

DFI Still Looking for LRFD Papers for 2013 Deep Foundations Conference

January 24, 2013 rockman Comments Off

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is soliciting abstracts on a broad range of topics for its 38th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Phoenix, Arizona on September 25-28, 2013. Although the submittal date for abstracts […]

Geo-Congress 2012 Photos

March 28, 2012 rockman Comments Off

I have a collection of photos on the GeoPrac Facebook page. I’ve been shooting with my iPhone, so don’t expect any great shots of the keynote speakers or anything, but I did get some good […]

Video: Day 1 of Geo-Congress 2012

March 28, 2012 rockman Comments Off

Magnus Media did a great job last year covering the Geo-Congress event, and they are here again this year. Here is their video from the first full day of the conference.

Video: The 2012 Geo-Wall Competition

March 27, 2012 rockman Comments Off

The 2012 Geo-Competition was held at the Geo-Congress 2012 conference in Oakland, California. Teams from 17 universities competed in a competition to construct a model mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining wall out of craft paper […]

gINT Software team not sitting on their heels!

March 27, 2012 rockman Comments Off

Today I was able to speak with several members of the gINT software team from Bentley, a GeoPrac Sponsor. Salvatore Caronna, the original creator of gINT, is still very much involved in the improvement of […]