Tornado Wind Effects on the Grand Gulf Cooling Tower

The Transbay Transit Center: Breaking New Ground in Urban Geotechnics
A building boom centered around the construction of the new Transbay Transit Center (TTC) is transforming the South of Market neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, newly dubbed the Transbay...

2014 Geo-Congress Wrap-Up
A recap of the 2014 Geo-Congress in Atlanta, GA....

Geotechnical Reliability – Ten Unresolved Problems
Geotechnical engineering deals with a world in which assured solutions seldom apply, and in which the famed early practitioners spoke proudly of accommodating uncertainty and judgment....

Communicating Risk in Geotechnical Engineering Practice
Three project situations are articulated with specific emphasis on an element of uncertainty or risk unique to each....

The Best Surprise is No Surprise: The Geotechnical Engineer's Ethical Responsibility to Say No to Bidding
The subsurface characterization work that a geotechnical engineer must perform is critical to the success of every project that requires the cooperation of the ground, regardless of whether...

Geo-Legends: Robert M. Koerner, PhD, PE, D.GE, NAE, Dist.M.ASCE

Geotechnical IT Revolution: Intelligent Compaction and Beyond
The explosion of innovative developments in the IT industry is making many of us geotechnical engineers green with envy. We want some new technology, too! Luckily, advances in sensors...

Geo-Legends: James K. Mitchell, ScD, PE, NAE, Dist.M.ASCE

Geotechnical Design Over Karst. It's All About the Water
Karst is a type of topography which is formed over soluble rocks, such as limestone, dolomite, or gypsum. An irregular bedrock surface is typical of most karst areas, along with sinkholes,...

Sudoku and Geotechnical Solutions: Lessons from a Parallel Universe of Limited Data
Geotechnical engineering relies on data to reduce risk. We infer, interpolate, and extrapolate based on often limited data with time and cost constraints also at work. Similarly, solving...

Environmentally 'Clean' Research Station Planned for Greenland

From Casagrande's 'Calculated Risk' to Reliability-Based Design in Foundation Engineering: The 6th Arthur Casagrande Memorial Lecture

Evaluation of Geotechnical Property Variability

Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering By Siobhan Roberts. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013

Elevated Art Exhibit Provides Close-up Views of Towering Columbus Statue

Delivering Geotechnical Engineering to Elementary School Children

UC Davis Geotechnical Graduate Student Society: Enhancing Education

Offshore Jack-Up Drilling Rigs: An Engineering Challenge

Geotechnical Aspects of OCAES Vessel and Anchoring System

 

 

 

 

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