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Geotechnical News • December 2016
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GEOTECHNICAL
An accoustic emission slope displacement rate sensor:
INSTRUMENTATION NEWS
Comparisons with established instrumentation
22
Alister Smith, Neil Dixon, Daniela Codeglia, Gary Fowmes
Monitoring a heritage building restoration project
with geotechnical instrumentation
25
Vincent Le Borgne
General role of instrumentation, and summaries
of instruments that can be considered for helping
to provide answers to possible geotechnical questions.
Part 5
29
J
ohn Dunnicliff
WASTE GEOTECHNICS
The value of using softcopy mapping tools for siting
of engineered tailing impoundments
33
Dennis O’Leary and Allison Isidoro
GEOINTEREST
Canadian technical guidelines and best practices
related to landslides
37
DEPARTMENTS
CGS News
7
Geotechnical Instrumentation News
20
The Grout Line
32
Waste Geotechnics
33
Geo-Interest
37
Cover
Left figure: Broad scale 1:250,000 scale surficial geology mapping
(from publically available data sources).
Centre figure: Detailed 1:2,000 scale terrain mapping, including
surficial geology and geohazards.
Right figure: Detailed 1:1,000 terrain mapping showing
possible location of tailings pond. (See page 33 for article)
CON T E N T S
