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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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