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Video: Landslide and Giant Boulder Nearly Crushes Car

September 4, 2013 rockman Comments Off

A dramatic landslide that nearly crushed a car along the Taiwanese coast was caught on video by a dashboard cam. The video has gone viral on YouTube and has over 7 million views since it […]

Installing a soldier pile lagging wall near I-5 and Samish Way on-ramp in Washington State

Grand Challenges in Earth Retaining Structures – Share your ideas!

September 4, 2013 rockman Comments Off

ASCE Geo-Institute retaining wall committee Chairman Dimitrios Konstantakos of Deep Excavation LLC has issued a request to the geotechnical community to help identify the “Grand Challenges in Earth Retaining Structures”. From his blog post on […]

Weekend CUP for August 22, 2013

August 22, 2013 rockman Comments Off

Summer is coming to a close and it’s time to start clearing the decks. Here are some 67 articles that I came across earlier this summer that GeoPrac readers might find interesting. Enjoy!

Award winners showcase the best in geosynthetics installation – Source: Geosynthetics Magazine
NASA transfers control of Landsat 8 Satellite to USGS – Source: USGS Release
Get The Lowdown on Underpinning – Source: Moretrench GeoBlog
OSHA To Reopen Controversial Crane and Derrick Rules – Source: ENR: Engineering News Record
Piling federation aims to improve data provided to engineers – Source: New Civil Engineer
Steep slope foundation for “H” frame structure – Source: Cruxsub.com
Geosynthetics info provided to Virginia transportation officials – Source: Geosynthetics Magazine
ALLU® Stabilization System Cost-Effectively Improves Engineering Characteristics Of Soft Soil & Remediates Contaminated Soil – Source: THE BUCK
Louisiana’s Bayou Is Sinking: Can $50 Billion Save It? – Source: National Geographic News via Geology.com
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5079: Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900–2008) – Source: USGS
25 of mankind’s greatest engineering feats – Source: CNN via ASCE SmartBrief

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Artist rendering of a giant meteorite impact in Greenland some 3 billion years ago

The oldest and ‘biggest ever’ asteroid crater discovered in Greenland

August 19, 2013 rockman Comments Off

A team of geologists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) in Copenhagen, Cardiff University in Wales, Lund University in Sweden and the Institute of Planetary Science in Moscow has found the remains […]

Video: Sinkhole swallows Florida resort building

August 19, 2013 rockman Comments Off

Work continues at the Port of Anchorage expansion project on May 5, 2010.

Audit: Federal agency failed in oversight of port expansion in Anchorage

August 15, 2013 rockman Comments Off

The U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General released a scathing audit report on the troubled Port of Anchorage expansion project and the obscure federal agency that was supposed to be overseeing it, the Maritime Administration […]

A worker walking near water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.

Ground Freezing proposed to stop radioactive groundwater at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

August 9, 2013 rockman Comments Off

New leaks into the groundwater have been detected at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan that experienced a triple meltdown in 2011 after an earthquake and Tsunami. The plant’s operator, Tepco, recently admitted […]

Arturo L. Ressi di Cervia, recipient of the 2013 DFI Distinguished Service Award

Ressi di Cervia Named 2013 DFI Distinguished Service Award Recipient

August 7, 2013 rockman Comments Off

Hawthorne, NJ (August 1, 2013): Arturo L. Ressi di Cervia is the recipient of DFI’s highest award to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award. He is the 33rd recipient of the award, designated for individuals […]

Drilled shaft foundation layout for the Burj Khalifa

Pile Supported Raft Foundation in Burj Khalifa

August 1, 2013 rockman Comments Off

The Burj Khalifa is founded on pile supported raft foundation consisting of 194 bored-in-situ piles or drilled shafts as we commonly call them in the US with a 12 foot thick mat. The piles were […]

The proposed mitigation is to shift the road alignment 60 feet and to use the rock from the cut to buttress the toe of the slide

Geotechnical investigation and recommendations complete for US 89 Bitter Springs Landslide

July 30, 2013 rockman Comments Off

The geotechnical investigations and report are complete for the US 89 Bitter Springs Landslide south of Page, Arizona. ADOT published a news release with the results of Kleinfelder’s geotechnical investigation and a link to their […]