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Geotechnical News
June 2013
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GEO ENGINEER.ORG
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ISSMGE’s Case Histories Journal
Releases New Issue
ISSMGE’s International Journal of
Geoengineering Case Histories is an
official journal of the
International
Society for Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering
(ISSMGE)
and
Geoengineer.org
, focusing on
the publication of well- documented
case histories.
It is the first and only
refereed journal focusing exclusively
on geoengineering practice, while
all of its papers and related data are
available for free download online!
The
latest completed issue
of the
journal can be found here:
and includes the following
papers:
1. Title:
Flat Jack Method for Mea-
suring Design Parameters for
Hydraulic Structures of the Koyna
Hydro Electric Project in India;
Authors:
Keshav Ral Dhawan.
2. Title:
Large Diameter Long Bored
Piles in the Mekong Delta;
Au-
thors:
Bengt H. Fellenius, Nguyen
Minh Hai.
3. Title:
The July 10 2000 Payatas
Landfill Slope Failure;
Authors:
Navid H. Jafari, Timothy D. Stark,
Scott Merry.
4. Title:
Embankment Failure in
Residual Soils at Nivsar, Ratnagiri;
Authors:
Ashish Juneja, Deblina
Chatterjee, Rajendra Kumar.
All case histories papers are also
positioned in GeoMap
. To learn
more about the journal and submit a
case history visit
Geoengineer.org Opens the
Classroom to the Geoprofession
A few months ago, Geoengineer.org
developed a platform for hosting web-
based class projects online and making
them available to the entire geotechni-
cal profession.
This cyber-enabled
application aims to facilitate profes-
sors and students in the geotechni-
cal engineering field to develop and
execute projects as part of courses.
The first student projects hosted, were
part of the “Geoenvironmental Reme-
diation” course of the University of
Michigan. The projects were reviewed
online by practitioners and academi-
cians, thus helping students learn by
making further improvements to their
projects. The web-based platform was
developed by Geoengineer.org with
partial funding from the ASCE Geo-
Institute.
View the projects here:
Geoengineer.org develops new
ISSMGE.org website
The International Society for Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engi-
neering (ISSMGE) and its Presi-
dent Professor Jean-Louis Briaud
announced a few months ago the
launch of the new ISSMGE website
. ISSMGE.
org has now an improved structure and
layout and has also improved capabili-
ties to host technical content.
Geoengineer.org is also behind the
development and maintenance of
other organizational and company
websites in the geo-industry. You can
learn more about the services offered
here:
Live Coverage of Geo-industry
Conferences
In March, the Geoengineer.org team
kicked off a new service for its audi-
ence: the “Live Coverage of selected
Geo-Industry Conferences”.
The first
event covered was ASCE Geo-
Institute’s Geo-Congress 2013, and
was attended virtually by more than
1,000 unique visitors!
Live Blogging
included posts, photos and videos
from technical sessions and the exhibit
hall
in real time
, while actual and
virtual attendees participated through
posts and comments! See the Live
blogging page of Geo-Congress 2013:
Marietta Zarogiannopoulou
Marketing Director
http://myGeoWorld.info