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Georgia Tech Digitizes George F. Sowers' 1940s Harvard Notes from Terzaghi and Casagrande

The Georgia Tech Geosystems group has released digital scans of course notes taken by Prof. George F. Sowers during his graduate studies at Harvard University in the late 1940s, offering the geotechni...

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Maidstone East cutting shows importance of proactive slope management

Railway cuttings can be among the most sensitive geotechnical assets on transport networks. They are often steep, weathered, difficult to access and located directly beside live operational infrastruc...

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Geotechnical investigations begin for The Bight Bridge replacement

Geotechnical investigations have started for the planned replacement of The Bight Bridge at Wingham, marking an important step in restoring and future-proofing the Manning River crossing. The works in...

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How to Specify Helical Piles: A Practical Guide for Engineers

Helical piles and anchors are widely used in foundation construction due to their efficiency, versatility, and performance. However, specifying them correctly is critical to ensuring both structural r...

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Heavy rain triggers retaining wall collapse at highway construction site in Karnataka

A retaining wall and part of a hillside collapsed at an under-construction National Highway site near Nelligudde in Moodbidri, Karnataka, following continuous heavy rainfall. The incident occurred wit...

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Enable true ground-informed design in Civil 3D

Our understanding of ground conditions evolves with the project, so geotechnical design teams need a reliable way to work with the latest information.  Seequent’s OpenGround Civil 3D Extension creates...

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Scripting in RS3: Your Tunnel Liner Results, On Demand

What if checking every section along your tunnel took less time than making a coffee? Tunnel lining design is not painful during the analysis stage – the work gets bogged down afterward. Once RS3 has...

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Geotechnical modeler replacement: making the subsurface part of your Civil 3D design with GeoDin Ground

If you design infrastructure in Autodesk Civil 3D and you have outgrown manual borehole imports, the most complete option available today is GeoDin® Ground - a free app on the Autodesk App Store that...

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Keller's feature article in Foundation Drilling Magazine

Samuel DeMott and Matt Redfern have written a feature story in May/June's issue of ADSC Foundation Drilling Magazine discussing the California High-speed Rail Dutch John Cut and Cole Slough Bridge Fou...

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Streetlight Foundation Design: ASD vs. LRFD Explained

Streetlight foundations in North America have historically been designed using Allowable Stress Design (ASD) methods, primarily in accordance with the AASHTO Standard Specifications for Structural Sup...

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New connector aims to reduce downtime and enhance safety in floating offshore wind farms

Floating offshore wind is advancing quickly, but one of its practical challenges remains the safe and efficient connection of dynamic power cables in open sea conditions. A new approval milestone for...

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Levels of Analysis Used in Retaining Wall Design

The analysis of retaining structures is commonly approached in three progressively more advanced levels, depending on the complexity of the wall system, the ground conditions, and the need to predict...

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Pore Pressure and Retaining Wall Drainage

The Critical Role of Groundwater Water is the single most destructive element in retaining wall stability analysis. While designers account for the dry unit weight (γd) or saturated unit weight (γsa...

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Tutorial of finding the required depth of embedment of a sheet pile retaining wall using the global factor of safety and the Eurocode 7 approach

A cantilever sheet pile wall supporting a 3.5 m deep excavation in dry sand (γdry = 15.3 kN/m³, φ′ = 35°, c′ = 0) is to be constructed. Determine the required depth of embedment.     1. By using the...

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Sheet Pile Wall Design

A sheet pile wall is a line of interlocking thin wall elements driven into the ground to form a continuous barrier that can retain soil and/or water. Stability comes from penetration below the exc...

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Tutorial Exercise

Design for a cantilever retaining wall supporting 3.0 m of dry sand backfill. The wall has a 3.20 m base (1.00 m toe, 1.90 m heel), a 0.30 m thick stem, and a 0.45 m thick footing; concrete unit wei...

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Geotechnical Stability Analysis of Retaining Walls

The geotechnical stability of a retaining structure is assessed using limit equilibrium methods, which determine the ratio of available resisting forces/moments to the driving forces/moments. This ra...

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Lateral Earth Pressure States and Coefficients

Introduction to Lateral Earth Pressure Soil, unlike a true fluid, exhibits both density and internal friction (φ) and cohesion (c). Consequently, the pressure it exerts horizontally on a retaining s...

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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

This fully updated second edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake engineering for first-year graduate students in geotechnical or earthquake engineering graduate programs with a l...

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2024 Geotechnical Business Directory

This unique annual business directory is published by GeoWorld, the professional network for geotechnical engineers, which currently includes 37,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies and organizatio...

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2025 Special Edition USA & Canada Geotechnical Business Directory

This unique annual business directory is published by GeoWorld, the professional network for geotechnical engineers, which currently includes 40,500+ professionals and 1,100+ companies and organizatio...