<p>The paper references case histories of failures caused by water pressure and reviews the safety provisions related to water pressure in some existing geotechnical codes. It discusses the provisions of Eurocode 7 and the way they are currently being interpreted ...

The Joint Technical Committee on Education and Training (JTC-3) has begun the process of assessing the professional competency requirements of specializations within geo-engineering by adapting the process established for civil engineering by the ASCE. Competency ...

Geotechnical engineering analyses and designs for transportation structures have traditionally been based on Allowable Stress Design (ASD), also known as Working Stress Design (WSD). Transportation structures that require geotechnical engineering are bridge ...

In most geotechnical or construction projects civil engineers have to conscientiously consider both technical subsurface objects and natural bedrock objects. From a civil engineer’s perspective, there is an urgent need to extend the Building Information Model ...

In this paper the conventional approach to pipeline stability design is reviewed and compared with experiments. A failure mechanism of pipelines on liquefied seabeds is analyzed. An analytical model to predict the pipelines sinking depth is proposed, and the ...

In the construction of a recent tunnel, we used the NATM (New Austrian Tunnelling Method) to carry out the design for the geological conditions. It is generally difficult to properly determine the geological conditions in a tunnel and as a consequence the ...