Out of the Way
The 0.9 mi (1.4 km) long Fort Washington Way was built in 1961 as a distributor for local downtown traffic. It quickly became a critical section of the region's Interstate...
Ancient Concept, Modern Context
For several centuries, Bibliotheca Alexandrina was the cultural center of the Western world. It was built by the heirs of Alexander the Great some 2,400 years ago and burned, some say...
A 2D Approach to the Evaluation of the 3D Effects of Landslide Stabilization Using Piles
Micropiles in Karst: A Case History of Difficulties and Success
Lateral Loading & Seismic Response of CIDH Pile Supported Bridge Structures
Use of Piles and Deep Well Pumping in Slide Stabilization
Full-Scale Testing of Developed Hybrid Foundation
Micropiles on a Mountainside
Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Small Diameter Steel Pipe Piles
Evaluation of Axial Compression Behavior of Micropiles
Assessment of SIMBAT? Dynamic Pile Tests
Use of Engineering Geophysics to Investigate a Site for a Bridge Foundation
Laterally Loaded Pile Group Effects and P-Y Multipliers
Mini-Pile Case Histories and a Tensile Load Test on an Instrumented Mini-Pile
Geotechnical: Study Shows Piles Less a Threat to Aquifers Then Previously Thought
Extended Life Span
The Harlem River Lift Span�part of New York City's Triborough Bridge System�was the largest vertical span in the country at the time of its construction in 1936. The lift...
Native American Imprint
Following a design phase of more than four years, construction has finally begun on the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which will occupy...
Big Screen Debut
The Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District (GCID) encompasses nearly 150,000 acres (60,700 ha) of prime agricultural land in California's Sacramento Valley, generally considered...
Corebits: Clyde Baker to Present the 2000 Ralph Peck Lecture at Amherst; GeoDever 2000 Builds on Exciting New Opportunities in Geotechnical Engineering; Wallace Hayward Baker Award; Augered Cast-in-Place Pile Seminar; Central Pennsylvania Section of ASCE 18th Geotechnical Seminar Geotechnical Trends in the Next Millennium
Deep Foundations In the Future (Available in Geo-Environmental Special Issue only)
The design and construction of deep foundations has gone from an art form to a scientifically based engineering practice. Research in this field has improved over the past century and...
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