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Two workers killed after soil collapse at water pipeline site in central Japan

Two construction workers have died after being buried by soil and debris during water pipeline works in Anjo City, Aichi Prefecture, highlighting the severe risks associated with excavation and trench...

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Slide2 Expands Probabilistic Modeling with Anisotropic Spatial Variability and Conditional Random Fields

Real geology doesn't obey global x-y axes, and it certainly doesn't ignore the borehole logs sitting on your desk. Slide2's Spatial Variability feature already allows engineers to represent uncertain...

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£19.8M Torcross coastal defence scheme begins with 90,000 tonnes of rock armour

Construction has begun on a £19.8 million coastal defence scheme at Torcross in Devon, where almost 90,000 tonnes of new rock armour will be placed along the shoreline following severe storm damage ea...

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Skye road restored after 300-tonne landslide with rock armour and drainage works

Around 300 tonnes of rock, soil and debris were removed from a key road on the Isle of Skye after a landslide blocked the route near Uig, triggering a rapid programme of slope stabilisation and draina...

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Two workers killed after slope incident at Chile's El Teniente copper mine

Two workers have died following a slope incident at the open-pit section of Chile's El Teniente copper mine, with operations in the affected area remaining suspended while authorities investigate the...

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GeoStudio 2026.1 New Release: Advancing Engineering Productivity Through Usability and Performance

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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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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Himalayan glacial collapse triggers deadly floods across Nepal and Tibet

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...

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Spatial Safety Maps from RS3 SSR Results: A Python Post-Processing Workflow

Introduction Shear Strength Reduction (SSR) analysis is a well-established method for assessing the stability of slopes and other geotechnical infrastructure, including open pits. In RS3, SSR yields a...

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