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Advances in Monitoring

Marr et al – TVA’s Monitoring Program USSD 2015

TVA is responsible for the operation and safety of 22 waste stacks associated with its 11 coal-fired power plants located in 3 states.
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Data Management

Managing Large Amounts of Geotechnical Performance Data for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project

The Central Artery/Tunnel Project in Boston, Massachusetts is the largest, most complex highway project in American history. It involves the construction of 7.5 miles of highway through the center of the city with half the work occurring underground.
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Soil Improvement

Low Permeable Backfill Soils in Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Walls State of the Practice in North America

The results of a survey of state agencies and private sector groups and a literature review is presented as the basis of this state-of-the practice report on the use of low permeable, marginal soils as reinforced fill in geosynthetic reinforced soil walls.
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Levees

Levee Erosion by Overtopping in New Orleans during the Katrina Hurricane

Erodibility of a soil is defined here as the relationship between the erosion rate of a soil dz/dt and the velocity v of the water flowing over it, or the relationship between the erosion rate of a soil dz/dt and the shear stress developed by the water at the water-soil interface.
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Landfills

Lessons Learned From the Failure of a GCL/Geomembrane Barrier on a Side Slope Landfill Cover

A sliding failure which occurred during construction of a composite landfill cover is evaluated.
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Slope Stability

Key Features of the Geotechnical Safety Programme for the Amuay Cliffside

An earlier paper (LAMBE, SILVA and MARR, 1981) described the in-stability of the cliffside which bounds the eastern portion of LAGOVEN's Amuay Refinery, Venezuela.
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Levees

Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Regional Flood Protection Systems During Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned

The recent flooding and devastation of the greater New Orleans region during hurricane Katrina represented the most costly peace-time failure of an engineered system in North American history.
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Shear Strength

Interface and Internal Shear Testing Procedures to Obtain Peak and Residual Values

Equipment for measuring peak and residual strength of geosynthetic materials is reviewed and discussed in the context of obtaining internal and interface strength values for design.
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Bridge Monitoring

Instrumentation Plan for Monitoring the New I-10 Twin Span Bridge

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