From Good to Great: The Evolution of Cutoff Wall Quality Control and Verification Techniques
The last three decades have brought tremendous improvements to quality control (QC) procedures for construction and post-construction verification of deep cutoff walls installed in active high-hazard dams....
70 Years of Soil-Bentonite Slurry Walls: So, What's New
The soil-bentonite slurry wall (SBSW) is an established ground improvement technology that continues to find applications. It’s often the best and most economical vertical barrier to essentially stop lateral...
Smart Walls: An Entrepreneur’s Solution for a Looming Challenge
Milwaukee Theater Conversion Requires Move of Million-Pound Wall
A Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Build a Wall: How a Simple Highway Widening Led to a Patent
When first opened in 1940, and as segments were later added to it, the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Turnpike) was principally a four-lane highway with two eastbound and two westbound lanes. As traffic volume...
Low-Gravity Experiments: Shear Testing Takes a Nose Dive
A major challenge to making celestial soil mechanics viable is to re-engineer the profession's toolkit to provide geotechnical solutions without the luxury of ex-situ and in-situ testing as we know them...
Military Geotechnics in the Ancient World: Geo-Innovating the Hard Way
The technical expertise that is now part of geotechnical engineering was of paramount importance in the ancient worlds. This is because before, but also after, the invention of siege equipment, nearly...
Transparent Roof, Operable Walls Highlight Minnesota Multipurpose Stadium
Serpentine Walls Support Light-Filled Twist to Glass Museum's Latest Expansion
Shear and Interface Strength of Clay at Very Low Effective Stress
Thin-specimen direct shear (TSDS) tests were conducted to measure the shearing strength of kaolinite, and interface strengths between kaolinite and acrylic plastic and anodized aluminum,...
Sheet Pile Wall
Cyclic Response of Steel-Stud Framed Wall Panels
Evaluation of Geotechnical Property Variability
On the Evaluation of Static Soil Properties
Cagelike Frame Will Support Shanghai Tower's Twisting Curtain Wall
Hydrodynamic Damping on Flexible Cylinders in Sheared Flow
Viscous Wall Dampers Enhance Hospital's Seismic Performance
Seawalls, Seacliffs, Beachrock: What Beach Effects? Part 3
Seawalls, Seacliffs, Beachrock: What Beach Effects? Part 1
Evaluation of the Stone Strong Gravity Wall System by Stone Strong Systems: Final Report
This report was prepared as part of the HITEC evaluation for earth retaining systems. This evaluation was performed on STONE STRONG gravity walls, a precast modular wall developed, designed,...
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