The gravitational pull of the sun and moon may play a more important role in slow earthquakes than previously understood, with new modelling suggesting that even very small tidal stresses can influenc...
Excavation has started on the 4.4 km Melito Tunnel, the final tunnel to be driven on the Apice-Hirpinia section of Italy's Naples-Bari high-speed and high-capacity railway.The drive is being carried o...
Authorities in Rayong province, eastern Thailand, ordered residents of at-risk areas to evacuate urgently on Monday, September 28, 2026. The order followed reports of damage at Khlong Ra-ok Reservoir,...
A retaining wall at a construction site on Vojvode Vlahovića Street in Belgrade, Serbia, collapsed at approximately 17:00 local time on September 23, 2026. The failure took place in the Braće Jerković...
Tunnel boring is set to begin on the Hudson Tunnel Project, the cornerstone of the wider Gateway Program connecting New Jersey and New York. The milestone marks the start of excavation for the first n...
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Earthquake swarms, clusters of moderate-to-strong seismic events occurring in quick succession, are a growing concern for large dams, whose foundations can suffer cumulative stiffness degradation and...
Eggs laid by the endangered piping plover are a creamy light brown with small dark specs on them, perfectly camouflaged in the sands of Ogunquit Beach, Maine. With each egg measuring just over an inch...
Rock slope stability analysis rarely ends with a single number. While the Factor of Safety remains a fundamental measure of stability, real-world engineering workflows often require much more: isolati...
Debris flows are among the fastest and most destructive forms of slope failure, and predicting when and how they initiate remains one of geotechnical engineering's toughest hazard-assessment problems....
Evaluations of hot-dip galvanized Chance® Instant Foundations installed in the early 1980s have confirmed continued structural performance after more than four decades in service. The foundations util...
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More than 1,300 people are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a sudden collapse of mud, rock and ice triggered catastrophic flooding through Himalayan valleys. At least 165 people hav...
Automation should not be used merely to make a model run faster. Its real value is to help engineers build repeatable workflows, investigate more alternatives, reduce avoidable manual errors and use f...
This workshop on Slope stability is given as a special topic day added to the Advanced Course on Computational Geotechnics, but can also be joined as individual workshop. The workshop focuses on the c...
Analytical and Limit Equilibrium Methods Analytical calculations are useful for preliminary tensile demand, pullout and load-transfer checks. Limit equilibrium methods are widely used for reinforced...
The performance of reinforced soil depends heavily on construction. Even a correctly designed product can be compromised by poor orientation, damage, inadequate compaction or uncontrolled water. The g...
This example demonstrates two basic internal checks for a 6.0 m high geogrid-reinforced soil wall: tensile rupture and reinforcement pullout. It is intentionally simplified, uses level granular backfi...
From Product Property to Design Resistance Design begins by defining the problem, the governing limit states, the design life, the ground conditions and the construction sequence. Index product data...
Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls In an MSE wall, horizontal layers of geogrid extend from the facing into compacted structural backfill. The soil tends to move laterally, while the reinforcement c...
Tensile Force-Strain Response Geogrid tensile properties are normally reported as force per unit width, such as kilonewtons per metre. The full force-strain curve is often more useful than the ultima...
Tensile Reinforcement The most fundamental mechanism is tensile reinforcement. As the soil mass tends to deform, relative movement develops between the soil and the geogrid. Interface shear and beari...
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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...
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...
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...
