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Shotcrete Made From Tailings Could Insulate Underground Mines

October 27, 2014 rockman Comments Off

Underground metal mines can have extremely high temperatures, making it hazardous for employees to work there for more than a few minutes at a time. Researchers from my alma mater, the University of Arizona, are […]

DIGGSML.org website revamped

October 27, 2014 rockman Comments Off

DIGGSML is an XML-based schema designed for transfer of geotechnical and geoenvironmental data between different organizations. In 2013, the ASCE Geo-Institute was awarded a 2-year contract by the Ohio DOT to implement DIGGS. The current […]

Damage on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage Alaska after the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964

Alaskan megathrust fault more active under Kodiak

October 23, 2014 rockman Comments Off

The 1964 Alaska Earthquake was 9.2 in magnitude and caused dramatic destruction and dramatic examples of surface rupture, subsidence, and liquefaction. New paleoseismic evidence points to a previously unknown earthquake that happened on the same […]

Panama Canal Cover Story in 2014 Volume 30 Issue 5

Panama Canal Cover Story in Pile Buck Magazine

October 14, 2014 rockman Comments Off

The latest issue of Pile Buck Magazine has a cover story on the Panama Canal Construction. Talk about a mega project! There are actually two articles, the first includes a very nice summary of the […]

Catch-up Post for October 8, 2014

October 8, 2014 rockman Comments Off

Leading Building Foundations Engineer Clyde Baker Joins GEI Consultants – Source: VPO Press Release Contractor announces details of repair work plan for the SR 99 tunneling machine – Source: WSDOT Alaskan Way Viaduct Hayward Baker […]

LiDAR Topography of Oso Landslide showing amount of elevation change

LiDAR Applications in Landslides

October 8, 2014 rockman Comments Off

The cover story in the latest issue of LIDAR Magazine is titled Unearthing Landslides. It describes the work done by a company called Quantum Spatial in the immediate aftermath of the Oso Landslide. They were […]

Happy Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday 2014!

October 2, 2014 rockman Comments Off

It’s October 2 again, and today would have been Karl Terzaghi’s 131st birthday. As I was reflecting on Terzaghi and some of his quotes, I was reading a passage from Professor’s Goodman’s biography1 that described […]

New Version of RockWorks16 Available

September 30, 2014 rockman Comments Off

Geological software developer RockWare announced last month that their free update for RockWorks 16 contains over 75 changes since the previous update. And if anyone is counting, that’s 672 changes since the initial release of […]

A tsunami flowing into the city of Mikayo after the 9.0 magnitude Fukushima earthquake March 11, 2011 (JIJI PRESS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Underwater landslide may have doubled 2011 Japanese tsunami

September 30, 2014 rockman Comments Off

A seismologist at the University of Tokyo believes that the monstrous tsunami that was responsible for so much damage and loss of life during the 2011 Fukushima earthquake may have been a result of a […]

Hayward Baker to Provide Vibro Pier ground improvement for new Atlanta Stadium

Hayward Baker to Provide Ground Improvement for New Atlanta Stadium Project

September 19, 2014 rockman Comments Off

Hayward Baker will construct their Vibro Piers(TM) foundation system at the new stadium to house the Atlanta Falcons and a new MLS team. Their holes will be 2.5 feet in diameter and 27 feet deep […]