Rocscience Inc.'s Technical Workshop: Slope Stability Analysis with Limit Equilibrium (Slide2) and Finite Element (RS2) begins on Oct 14th 2026
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Year in Infrastructure 2026: Subsurface Modeling and Analysis winner announced

Intertechne Consultores S.A. has been announced winner of the Subsurface Modeling and Analysis category at the Year in Infrastructure Awards 2026, hosted by Bentley Systems in Singapore. Intertechne w...

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Hinkley Point C completes 620 m fish return tunnel beneath Bristol Channel

Tunnelling has been completed on a 620 m fish return tunnel beneath the Bristol Channel at Hinkley Point C, marking another milestone in the marine infrastructure being built for the UK's new nuclear...

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This release introduces point loads in SLOPE3D for more realistic simulation of concentrated loading conditions and significant enhancements to the Python scripting API for improved workflow automatio...

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Three dead and infrastructure damaged as eastern Spain recovers from severe flooding

Communities in eastern Spain are assessing the damage left by several days of intense rainfall and flash flooding that killed at least three people, inundated homes and roads and disrupted transport a...

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Inside the ground beneath Bologna’s Two Towers: 3D model pinpoints 570 kPa stress peak under leaning Garisenda

University of Bologna researchers have combined a century of site investigations with a 3D finite element model to map the current stress state beneath the Garisenda and Asinelli towers – the geotechn...

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Faster Foundation Installation for Modern Railroad Infrastructure

Railroads have always depended on reliable infrastructure to keep people, products, and economies moving. As signaling systems, communication networks, crossing equipment, and monitoring technologies...

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GeoStudio Sets the Surcharge: Centrifuge Testing of Earthquake Swarm Effects on Dam Foundations

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...

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More Control, More Flexibility, and a More Efficient Analysis Workflow: Three New Features in RocSlope2

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...

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How PLAXIS 2D Helps Explain Rainfall-Triggered Debris Flows

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....

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Numerical Modelling of Geogrid-Reinforced Systems

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...

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Construction Sequence and Quality Control

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...

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Simplified Worked Example: Internal Stability of a Reinforced Soil Wall

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...

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Design Philosophy and Governing Checks

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...

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Principal Geotechnical Applications

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...

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Engineering Properties and Laboratory Testing

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...

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Reinforcement and Stabilization Mechanisms

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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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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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

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