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Geotechnical News • September 2014
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GEOTECHNICAL INSTRUMENTATION NEWS
• The unforgettable street party, for
which the main street of the little
town was blocked for us! See the
photo.
You may note that none of these four
memories is about technical content –
but I was happy with that too! I hope
to meet some of you in June next
year. For more information, see
www.
geotechnicalmonitoring.com.
Presentation style for technical
lectures
For many years I’ve been trying to
find a model of the best style for
presenting technical lectures. Eureka,
on youtube! ---
• Search for “entabulator by erik
fraz”.
• Search for “the brain as explained
by john cleese”.
So now we have our models. Yes,
they’re funny, but have you had to sit
through lectures that are as gobbledy-
gooky as these? I have.
Closure
Please send an abstract of an article
for GIN to
john@dunnicliff.eclipse.
co.uk
—see the guidelines on
www.
geotechnicalnews.com/instrumenta-
tion_news.php
Fee sihetak! (Egypt)
Resolving unexpected monitoring results - Two case histories
Glenn Tofani
An important aspect of most monitor-
ing programs is the development of an
analytical model, or an understanding
of the underlying processes, that pro-
duce the responses that were recorded.
Monitoring programs occasionally
yield results that are either unexpected
or not easily explained by conven-
tional models. This article presents
short summaries of two projects where
unexpected monitoring results were
obtained. These summaries describe
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