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2025 Geo-Challenge Student Competitions Now Open for Participation!

tvlasova | Created: 19 Sep 2024 | Updated: 19 Sep 2024
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The 2025 National Geo-Challenge Student Competitions will take place on March 3, 2025, during Geotechnical Frontiers 2025 in Louisville, KY. We are excited to invite students to showcase their skills...

Slope Stability in the Age of Steam

ecuscino | Created: 23 Aug 2024 | Updated: 26 Aug 2024
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Our member blogger looks at at Charles Gregory’s seminal 1844 paper “On railway cuttings and embankments”, examining two slope failures on a London railroad cut in the winter of 1841-42.

Ziotopoulou and Nagarajan Nominated for G-I Board

tvlasova | Created: 21 Aug 2024 | Updated: 21 Aug 2024
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The Geo-Institute Board of Governors has nominated Katerina Ziotopoulou, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE and Lucky Nagarajan, A.M.ASCE , to join the G-I Board for a term beginning in October 2024. Katerina...

Important GeoenvironMeet 2024 Update

tvlasova | Created: 09 Aug 2024 | Updated: 09 Aug 2024
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Recently, we made the difficult decision to reschedule and relocate the GeoenvironMeet 2024 conference. The new event will be held alongside Geotechnical Frontiers 2025, March 2-5, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky....

Geo-Extreme 2025: Call for Abstracts

tvlasova | Created: 31 Jul 2024 | Updated: 02 Aug 2024
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Call for Abstracts for Geo-Extreme 2025 is Now Open! Select one of the following topics: Big data and data analytics for extreme events and the modeling and assessment of compound...

New Episode of Summer School Live!

tvlasova | Created: 17 Jul 2024 | Updated: 17 Jul 2024
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This summer, join the Geo-Institute for 7 presentations on geotechnical topics. Use them to learn something new, help a student gain familiarity with a concept, educate a structural engineer, or...

Jazz Age Geotechnical Engineering: Part 4, Foundations and Piles

ecuscino | Created: 02 Jul 2024 | Updated: 09 Sep 2024
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Review of Foundations, abutments and footings (Hool and Kinne, Eds., 1923), Section 3: Foundations (Part B) By Michael Bennett, P.E., M.ASCE (Gannett Fleming – Audubon, PA) The second half of...

Soundtrack to the Summer '24

ecuscino | Created: 17 Jun 2024 | Updated: 18 Jun 2024
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Member blogger James Press assembles a geotechnical playlist for Summer 2024: music that speaks of frustration, desperate desire, triaxial test results, pore water pressure matches, the consolidation settlement of soils, and more.

An ethereal discovery: the connection between soil mechanics and the dawn of relativity in physics

ecuscino | Created: 15 May 2024 | Updated: 17 May 2024
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Scientific discoveries sometimes seem to come right out of the ether - sometimes literally! Meet Osborne Reynolds (of fluid mechanics fame) and learn about the surprising connections between his work on the dilatancy of granular materials and the beginnings of the science of soil mechanics.

Why Study Geo-History?

ecuscino | Created: 03 May 2024 | Updated: 06 May 2024
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As we approach the centenary of Terzaghi's pioneering work Erdbaumechanik, looking back can bring big benefits for the future.

Preliminary Program for GeoenvironMeet 2024!

k.sample-lord | Created: 05 Apr 2024 | Updated: 05 Apr 2024
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The preliminary program for GeoenvironMeet 2024 is now available! GeoenvironMeet 2024 is the geoenvironmental specialty conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Geo-Institute. In addition to exciting keynote talks...

Coming this Summer: The Dirt

ecuscino | Created: 29 Mar 2024 | Updated: 01 Apr 2024
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Get ready for the first G-I social network!

DIGGS V2.6 Released

tvlasova | Created: 28 Mar 2024 | Updated: 28 Mar 2024
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This is a new production release of DIGGS, with many enhancements to the schema as compared to v. 2.5.a. Legacy instance documents should verify under v. 2.6, but new instances...

A Darwinian Link to Geotechnical Engineering

ecuscino | Created: 07 Mar 2024 | Updated: 08 Mar 2024
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Review: On the horizontal thrust of a mass of sand (G. Darwin, 1883) By Michael Bennett, P.E., M.ASCE (A.G.E.S., Inc., King of Prussia, PA) In 1883, the British Empire stood...

Get Ready for Geo-Congress 2024 - with NC State Graduate Students!

ecuscino | Created: 24 Feb 2024 | Updated: 24 Feb 2024
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Get Ready for Geo-Congress 2024 with NC State Graduate Students! by Cassie Gann-Phillips, S.M.ASCE, and Marlee Reed, S.M.ASCE The most wonderful time of year (as a geotech professional) is upon...

A Site Visit for St. Nicholas

ecuscino | Created: 21 Dec 2023 | Updated: 22 Dec 2023
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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the cubicles, Santa’s Geotech Elves wiped ice off their cuticles....

Jazz Age Geotechnical Engineering, Part 3: Foundations, featuring Yankee Stadium

ecuscino | Created: 19 Dec 2023 | Updated: 09 Sep 2024
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What did geotechnical design and construction look like in 1923? Member blogger Michael Bennett reviews the 1923 textbook "Foundations, Abutments, and Footing." Part 3 covers Foundations and includes a case study of the 1923 Yankee Stadium.

Jazz Age Geotechnical Engineering: Part 2, Excavation, featuring the Lincoln Memorial

ecuscino | Created: 20 Nov 2023 | Updated: 20 Dec 2023
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What did geotechnical design and construction look like in 1923? What's changed since then -- and what hasn't? In this series, member blogger Michael Bennett reviews the 1923 textbook "Foundations, Abutments, and Footing" to see what the practices of a century ago might suggest for the future. Part 2: "Excavation"

Spooky Soil Mechanics

ecuscino | Created: 30 Oct 2023 | Updated: 30 Oct 2023
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A special guest lecturer presents his award lecture "Spooky Soil Mechanics: A More Ghoul-omb Approach"

Han becomes 2023-24 G-I President

ecuscino | Created: 19 Oct 2023 | Updated: 19 Oct 2023
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Jie Han has become the 2023-24 G-I President

Geo-Challenge 2024: Showcasing Your Geotechnical Engineering Skills

tvlasova | Created: 27 Sep 2023 | Updated: 27 Sep 2023
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The Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers is hosting the Geo-Challenge 2024 at Geo-Congress 2024 in Vancouver, BC. This competition is a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate...

Foundations from History: The Twin Towers

ecuscino | Created: 11 Sep 2023 | Updated: 11 Sep 2023
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Foundations from History: The Twin Towers By Michael Bennett, P.E. (A.G.E.S., Inc., King of Prussia, PA) Author’s Note: This piece is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the...

10th Anniversary of Geo-Channel Contest

tvlasova | Created: 28 Aug 2023 | Updated: 28 Aug 2023
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It's true! The Geo-Institute YouTube channel turns 10 years old this week. You've enjoyed award lectures, student videos, Director's Cut, and more since August 2013. Now you can share in...

Jared M. Green Nominated for G-I Board

tvlasova | Created: 08 Aug 2023 | Updated: 08 Aug 2023
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The Geo-Institute Board of Governors has nominated Jared M. Green, PE, D.GE, F.ASCE, to join the G-I Board for a term beginning in October 2023. Mr. Green is a geotechnical...

Last chance to submit your abstracts to the GeoenvironMeet 2024 Conference! EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 31!

k.sample-lord | Created: 26 Jul 2023 | Updated: 26 Jul 2023
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GeoenvironMeet 2024 (https://geoenvironmeet.asce.org/) is the 5th Specialty Conference on Geoenvironmental Engineering, the premier international specialty conference series on geoenvironmental engineering under the Auspices of the Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical Committee of...