Standards and Codes
ASTM Updates for July 9, 2020
Those of us in the geotechnical profession use ASTM Standards on a daily basis. It’s hard to keep up with changes, so I have brought back a GeoPrac.net feature I had a number of years […]
Standards and Codes
Standards and Codes
Rebuilding With FEMA Funds after Emergencies Requires New Standards
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an Interim Policy that requires any rebuilding after an emergency to comply with a number of consensus-based codes and standards as a prerequisite for receiving emergency funds. […]
News
New ASCE 7-16 Seismic Design Standards – More Site-Specific Design?
ASCE/SEI’s 7-16 publication, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, was published last year and contains some new seismic design standards. According to an analysis by one group of industry professionals […]
Failures
New Guidelines for High-rise Foundations in San Francisco
The 645-foot tall Millennium Tower in San Francisco settled an incredible 16 inches, and tilted at least 2 inches to the northwest. Recently the City and County Department of Building Inspection (DBI) issued interim guidelines […]
Standards and Codes
Calibration of Resistance Factors for Drilled Shafts for the New FHWA Design Method
The Louisiana Transportation Research Center has released a report that presents the reliability-based analyses for the calibration of the resistance factor for load and resistance factor design of axially loaded drilled shafts. Here is the […]
Standards and Codes
ASTM Updates for October 2012
Here is a collection of new, revised and updated ASTM standards from October 2012 that may be of interest to geoprofessionals. See the list after the break…
Standards and Codes
New FEMA Document on Hydrologic Dam Safety
FEMA has recently released a new document titled “Summary of Existing Guidelines for Hydrologic Safety of Dams”. I was pleased to hear about this report from one of it’s co-authors, Amanda Hess of Gannett Fleming. […]
Standards and Codes
ASTM Updates for August 2012
I’ve collected a list of new, updated and otherwise updated ASTM standards that pertain to geotechnical engineering, construction and materials testing and laboratory testing of soil, rock, geosynthetics and related fields. This month’s updates contains a new standard for measuring hydraulic conductivity of recycled tire-derived aggregate, updates to leak detection standards and more. Click through for the list of updates to ASTM standards you can’t afford to ignore in your practice.
Standards and Codes
ASTM Updates for June and July 2012
This post contains a list of new, revised and otherwise updated ASTM standards that pertain to the geotechnical engineering, materials testing and related fields. The standards for the standard proctor and modified proctor tests have been revised. There are a number of updated standards associated with cements and mortars, and curiously several standards that have been withdrawn with no replacements, including the standard for testing collapse susceptibility of soils, one pertaining to curing of concrete, and two for testing of soil-cement mixtures. Click through to see the updates to the ASTM standards.
Standards and Codes
Geoengineering ASTM Updates for May, 2012
Geotechnical engineers, geotechnical lab managers, CQA service managers and others utilize ASTM standards on a daily basis. Here at GeoPrac.net, we monitor the periodic updates from ASTM and summarize changes to relevant standards that may be of interest to geoprofessionals. Click through for a list of revised and reapproved standards from May of 2012.