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Behavior of Square-Round Shaft Combination Helical Piles and Anchors

Historically, most helical anchors and piles have been fabricated with helices attached to either a solid square or open pipe central shaft (Square-Shaft (SS) or Round-Shaft (RS)). This is generally h...

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Seismic memory in stone: Acropolis wall and Areopagus rockfall point to 0.21–0.23 g shaking in the 1705 earthquake

A forensic back-analysis combines staged pseudostatic soil–structure interaction models of the Acropolis Circuit Wall with a limit equilibrium study of a limestone block detachment at the Areopagus to...

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Manhattan's 138 lost cemeteries: a construction risk hidden under New York's streets

An NYU team has mapped burial grounds that have disappeared from Manhattan's maps. They argue that a shared, GIS-based record of forgotten graves should become a standard pre-construction tool, so tha...

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Three-Dimensional Numerical Analysis of a Large-Diameter Surge Shaft Using RS3

Introduction Large underground excavations rarely behave as isolated, uniform openings. As excavation progresses, the surrounding rock mass redistributes stress, support is activated, and adjacent ope...

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Control piles back in service: how UNAM engineers restored the foundations of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral

After years without maintenance and the 2017 earthquakes, a 2020–2021 geotechnical program at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral re-read the piezometers, repeated CPTs, load-tested and reconditioned...

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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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Sun and moon may help trigger slow earthquakes through resonance

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...

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Call for Papers for Special Issue on “Laboratory Testing for Geotechnical Engineering Practice: Case Histories”

TC101 on Laboratory Stress Strain Strength Testing of Geomaterials is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for Case Histories related to Laboratory Testing that will be published in ISSMGE’s Internat...

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GEER report of the 2026 Mindanao Earthquake is published and available online!

A full report on the investigation of the 2026 Mindanao Earthquake has been published on the GEER website. The report documents the immediate geotechnical and structural impacts of the earthquake and...

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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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