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Performance Monitoring

Why Monitor Geotechnical Performance?

The reasons for monitoring geotechnical performance are discussed to help engineers develop justifications for geotechnical instrumentation programs on their projects.
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Construction Impact Monitoring

Web-Based Monitoring of Vibrations

This paper describes the iSite-VM internet based vibration monitoring system.
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Automated Laboratory Testing

State of Practice Lecture Role of the Laboratory in Modern Geotechnical Practice

Laboratory tests, field observations and theories of mechanics provided the cornerstones for the development of modern geotechnical practice.
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Bridge Monitoring

A Smart Health Monitoring System for the New I-10 Twin Span Bridge over Lake Pontchartrain

A new I-10 Twin Span Bridge over Lake Pontchartrain is being constructed to replace the existing bridge, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Active Risk Management

Risk & Its Sources

Project risk is an uncertain event or condition that potentially impacts the project objectives for cost. schedule. and quality. Impacts may be both positive and negative.
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Levees

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. I: Introduction, Overview, and the East Flank

The failure of the New Orleans regional flood protection systems, and the resultant catastrophic flooding of much of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, represents the most costly failure of an engineered system in U.S. history.
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Soil Improvement

Selecting Reinforced Fill Soil for MSE Retaining Walls

Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining walls on public sector transportation projects are generally conservatively designed with "low fines" reinforced soils.
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Slope Stability

Probability & Risk of Slope Failure

This paper presents a risk assessment methodology the writers use in the practice of geotechnical engineering.
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Resonant Column Testing

New Approach to Resonant Column Testing

This paper describes a new type of torsional resonant column device that has a quasi-fixed base and free top.
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