National Driller has a nice interview with the 2015 Terzaghi Lecturer, Donald Bruce, President of Geosystems. Bruce, best known for his expertise in grouting, will deliver his Terzaghi Lecture at this week’s IFCEE conference in […]
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 […]
Dr. Carlos Santamarina of Georgia Tech. presented the 2014 Terzaghi Lecture at Geo-Congress 2014 entititled ‘Energy Geotechnology: Enabling New Insights Into Soil Behavior’. From the You-Tube summary: Energy is critical to life, and the coming […]
The Geo-Institute has released the 2013 Terzaghi Lecture onto their YouTube channel. “Skip” Hendron, Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented his lecture on “Improving Dam Safety with Lessons Learned from Case Histories […]
Every second of October, geotechnical engineers around the world remember Karl Terzaghi on his birthday! Terzaghi is the father of soil mechanics, and I don’t think it is cliche to say he is also the […]
First off, I am truly ashamed. I had a copy of Karl Terzaghi’s biography by Richard Goodman loaned to me for probably the last year and have yet to read it. Before I write any […]
I’ve still got a few minutes left in my time zone anyway. But October 2 is Karl Terzaghi’s birthday. And my colleague Robert Thompson at Dan Brown and Associates has written a nice blog post […]
Karl von Terzaghi, the father of Soil Mechanics would have been 126 years old today! Two years ago, a colleague sent me an email wishing me a Happy Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday. So I decided for […]
I got an email from my fellow geo-webmaster at Dan Brown and Associates, Robert Thompson wishing me and his other geotechnical colleagues a "Happy Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday!" so I thought I would pass it on […]
Everyone knows the name Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by natural selection. But did you know he has a connection to the roots of geotechnical engineering? Charles Darwin had some talented children, among […]
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