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Technical Articles

Decision making in Slope and Foundation Engineering
Slope and foundation engineering.

Detection and Prevention of Anomalies for Augercast Piling
On many sites, augercast piles have significant advantages including cost and low vibration. They also have some uncertainty due to the construction methods.

Mapping Submarine Slope Failures
A research paper written by Brian G. McAdoo.

Mass Movements
The relatively new capability to use fire modeling to predict the effects of fire on a building structure and its occupants has risen from research dedicated to understanding the dynamics of fire phenomena.

Mass-Wasting and Mass-Wasting Processes
An article on the down slope movement of rock near the Earth's surface prepared by Prof. Stephen A. Nelson.

Methods of Monitoring Landslides
The focus in this paper is on recent developments in monitoring displacement vector profiles particularly along vertical boreholes. It is shown that such observations may substantially help to elucidate essential aspects of the kinematics of a slide.

Pinto Valley slope failure
On 22 October 1997, a slope failure at BHP Copper's Pinto Valley operations in the US released approximately 230 000 cubic metres of mine rock and tailings into a section of the dry bed of Pinto Creek.

German Committee for Reinforced Concrete (DAfStb) - Code: Concrete with Recycled Aggregates
This Paper is a Contribution to the International Symposium: "Sustainable Construction: Use of Recycled Concrete Aggregate"

Construction Control for Augercast Piling
This paper describes the background and benefits of various construction control and pile evaluation methods for augercast piles. Case studies demonstrate application of these methods.

Spatial Variability of Rock Strength and Its Impact on Slope Stability
Applying geostatistical theory and methods, this paper analyzes the strength parameter of a rock mass measured in situ by the tool of the variogram.