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Powerful earthquake struck Mexico: At least one fatality
- Sep, 08, 2021
- Earthquake Reconnaissance Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Soil Structure Interaction News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Mexico, Acapulco
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
At least one person died after a M 7.0 earthquake hit southwestern Mexico on September 8, 2021. The seismic shock struck northeast of Acapulco, a seaport located on the Pacific coast of Mexico dista...
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Dynamic response of wind turbines under combined wind-earthquake loading
- Sep, 03, 2021
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Energy Geotechnics Numerical & Constitutive Modeling News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study investigates the combined effect of wind and earthquake forces to assess the dynamic behavior of wind turbines. The demand for renewable energy is nowadays at its peak. Wind power is a gr...
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China considers shutting down numerous dam facilities
- Sep, 04, 2021
- Dam Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- China
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
By 2019, China had constructed nearly 24,000 large dams (41% of the total large dams worldwide). Currently, officials are considering shifting their policy by shutting many dams down. An article publ...
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Numerous landslides triggered after M7.2 earthquake in Haiti
- Sep, 06, 2021
- Landslides Earthquake Reconnaissance News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Haiti, Duplantin
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Numerous landslides have been recorded in Haiti after a M7.2 earthquake struck in August 2021. The M 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti on August 14, 2021, at 8:29 am local time causing massive infrastructu...
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Using Torque Testing for Better Designs
- Sep, 02, 2021
- Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
All Engineers can relate to an experience we’ve had where what we designed was not how it turned out in “the real world”. Rarely does a project end up being exactly as what we put down on paper. Soil...
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Solving Grand Canyon's puzzling geological history
- Aug, 12, 2021
- Structural Geology News On Research / Academia Geology Highlights
- United States, Arizona
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A new study comes to shed light on a long-lasting mystery about the geology of the Grand Canyon. This involves a time gap in the canyon's rock formations that stretches for more than a billion years....
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Leapfrog Works Connector Out of the Box for OpenGround
Bentley and Seequent are pleased to announce that the OpenGround Connector in Leapfrog Works is now out of the Early Adopter Program (EAP) and available to all Leapfrog Works users with an OpenGround...
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The Economic Benefits of Testing Driven Piles
- Aug, 27, 2021
- Pile Foundations Foundation Design / Construction News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Read an article by Patrick Hannigan, President of GRL Engineers Inc., and Brent Robinson, Vice President of Pile Dynamics Inc., to learn how using reliable testing methods can save money for pile dr...
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How to Speed Up Calculation Time with PLAXIS
- Aug, 24, 2021
- Numerical & Constitutive Modeling News On Products & Services Finite Element / Finite Difference
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Numerical analysis is a valuable tool to support the decision-making process in geotechnical design. Such analyses might still remain excessively time-consuming if FE models are not being set up prop...
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How To Efficiently Speed Up Mesh Generation
- Aug, 23, 2021
- News On Products & Services Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Finite Element / Finite Difference
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
PLAXIS 3D is a very powerful tool that can provide extremely valuable information to geotechnical engineers, but did you know there are some insider tips that can help you save time? Here is some u...
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