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Landslide sweeps over Colombian school: at least three children dead
- Jul, 15, 2022
- Landslides Slope Stability Slope Stabilization Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters
- Colombia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
At least three children have been killed when a landslide buried a rural elementary school in northwestern Colombia on Thursday, according to authorities. Officials in Antioquia province said about...
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Rocscience | Can XFEM Solve the Meshing Challenges Posed by Complex Rock Slope Stability?
- Jul, 06, 2022
- Rock Engineering Finite Element / Finite Difference Rock Mass Characterization News On Research / Academia News On Software
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
The finite element method (FEM) is the most common approach to modeling the behavior of rock masses, including ones intersected by discontinuities such as joints, faults, and cracks. That should come...
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Tourists hit by avalanche in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains
- Jul, 11, 2022
- Landslides Slope Stability Slope Stabilization Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters Soil Mechanics Soil Dynamics Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Kyrgyzstan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A group of tourists trekking in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains on Friday survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them. The group consisted of nine British tourists and one American, plus th...
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GRL Engineers, Inc. Announces Scott Webster, P.E., President
GRL Engineers, Inc., announces today that Scott Webster, P.E., has been appointed the position of company president as of July 8, 2022. A 30-year GRL veteran executive and principal engineer, Mr. Web...
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Using Slide2 and RS2 to Study Impact Crater Morphology on Mars
As a Rocscience customer, using Slide2 and RS2 to model slope failure in slopes, dams, and embankments is just like any other day. Not so typical, and perhaps hard to believe, is the use of the softw...
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Rocscience | On the comparison of 2D and 3D stability analyses of an anisotropic slope
The Adoption of 3D Limit Equilibrium Method 2D limit equilibrium analysis is a powerful tool for problems involving uniform geometry. Three-dimensional limit equilibrium modeling can be an excellent...
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Rocscience | Geotechnical Software for Tunnelling
Tunnelling is a specialized civil engineering discipline for designing and constructing underground openings for transportation and other purposes. It accomplishes this through the removal of soil an...
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Arunachal Pradesh: 1 killed, 3 missing after landslides and floods
- Jun, 20, 2022
- Landslides Slope Stability Slope Stabilization Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- India
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Incessant rainfall in the past several days have triggered landslides and flood in several districts of Arunachal Pradesh disrupting surface communication, while one person was killed and three other...
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Rocscience | 3D Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM): A Parallel Case Study of a Landslide Supported with Piles
- Jun, 22, 2022
- Landslides Pile Foundations Retaining Walls Slope Stability News On Software
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
Shedding light on the preventative measures against slope failure due to stresses Determining the accuracy of slope stability analysis has been a primary subject of interest in the geotechnical field...
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