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Slope Stability

Instrumentation and Monitoring of Slope Stability

Instrumentation and monitoring of earth structures has experienced phenomenal change and growth since the last slope stability conference some twenty years ago.
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Bridge Monitoring

The Influence of Temperature Changes on Bridge Structural Behavior

In 2009, an instrumentation system was installed on the Little Mystic Truss, one of the two truss spans that comprise part of the Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge connecting Charlestown and Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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Geotechnical Innovation

Improving Geotechnical Laboratory Performance with Technology

Geotechnical laboratories have traditionally tracked laboratory samples with hand-written labeling systems and recorded test data in hand-written records.
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Triaxial Testing

Improved Soil Property Classification Through Automated Triaxial Stress Path Testing

Economical automated geotechnical testing systems are now available, allowing laboratory tests to accurately represent any given series of loading or unloading conditions from the environment such as slow, rapid, staged, drained, and undrained conditions.
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Geotechnical Innovation

Geotechnical Engineering and Judgment in the Information Age

The products of the Information Age give geotechnical engineers powerful tools to perform their work.
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Landfills

Geotechnical Considerations for the Design of Piggy Backed Lined Landfills

The design of a lined landfill that must be placed over an existing unlined landfill must be designed so that long term settlements of the underlying refuse do not lead to failure of the lined landfill.
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Geotechnical Innovation

Geoengineering in The New Millennium, Testing and Performance Monitoring

In the author’s opinion the geoengineering profession faces a major decision point: Will it continue towards becoming a craft, functioning at the call of others in a highly commoditized service or will it upgrade its services to produce higher value to clients and command the respect due to true professionals?
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Resilient Modulus Testing

A Fully Automated Computer Controlled Resilient Modulus Testing System

This paper describes a fully automated computer controlled testing system for
performing resilient modulus tests.
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Research & Development

Freeze-Thaw Effects & Gas Permeability of Utility Line Backfill 2004

Backfill materials used in utility trenches must maintain physical and mechanical integrity when subjected to the seasonal effects of freezing and thawing.
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