Errata for "Moving Down the Road of Progress: Geosynthetics Subdue Failures on Expansive Clays and Frost-susceptible Soils"
The investigations: The World Trade Center towers
On Aug. 21, 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced it would conduct a building and fire safety investigation of the World Trade Center disaster. This investigation was conducted...
Nebraska Dam Failure Highlights Dangers of Ice Runs, Report Says
Michigan Dam Failures Prompt Investigations, Lawsuits, and Safety Concerns
Correction to "Highway Embankment Failure on Soft Clay � Bad Input = Bad Output"
Embankment, Dams, and Slopes (EDS) Technical Committee Performs Reconnaissance on Dam Failures
Ethics is the Linchpin for Avoiding Failure
Innovation and Ideas against the Failure of Imagination
Poison Oak, Mistakes, and Lessons
When things go wrong in geotechnicalengineering ? like ground movements andearthwork construction delays ? failureinvestigations are often performed. In a typical geotechnical project, the path is relatively...
ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
The journal will meet the needs of the researchers and engineers to address risk, disaster and failure-related challenges due to many sources and types of uncertainty in planning, design, analysis, construction,...
California Moves to Repair Oroville�s Damaged Spillways While Analyzing Causes of Failures
Tennessee Engineers Perform Fast Fix on Failing Bridges
Evaluating Bridges With Unknown Foundations for Susceptibility to Scour: North Carolina Applies Risk-Based Guidelines to Over 3,750 Bridges
Scour occurs when flowing water removes erodible material such as sand and rock. For bridges over water, scour affects the stability of pier and abutment foundations and contributes to...
Loading, Geometry, and Analysis
This Standard applies to latticed steel transmission structures. These structures shall be either self-supporting or guyed. They consist of hot-rolled or cold-formed prismatic members...
Dynamic Shearing Properties Of Compacted Clay
A series of 116 Q-type triaxial compression tests was performed using specimens of Goose Lake clay compacted at water contents ranging from 9 percent dry of optimum to 3 percent on the...
Failure of a Large Circular Excavation
A circular excavation, 117 feet (36 m) in diameter by 90 feet (27 m) deep, was designed by an experienced engineering firm and construction was performed by an experienced contractor....
Failure of a Twenty-Foot High Retaining Wall
A cantilever retaining wall, designed in apparent accord with provisions in a civil engineering handbook, failed soon after construction. Analyses of the causes of the failure are presented....
Back-Analysis in Tunneling: Current State and Future Endeavors
What Is Foundation Failure?
NewsBriefs: Collapsible Ball May Lead to 'Foldable' Structures (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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