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The Spring of 2011 brought heavy rainfall and snowmelt throughout the Midwest, resulting in record flow rates and flood stages on the Lower Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. In many locations, the flood crested at levels above those ...
Reference: Geo- engineering Extreme Event Response (GEER) Report, prepared for National Science Foundation, June 18,, 2011, 40 p.
This report summarizes the preliminary findings of field investigation studies performed after Van-Tabanlı Earthquake (Mw=7.1). The intention of the reconnaissance studies was to retrieve perishable field data. The most attention was given to the compilation ...
Reference: Report for Web Dissemination GEER Association Report No. GEER-028
A mechanism of sand boil development during liquefaction is briefly discussed. In particular, the impact of sand boils as potential excess pore-pressure relief mechanisms is investigated within a computational solid-fluid fully coupled effective-stress framework ...
Reference: 15th Intl. Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, August. A.M. Ansal (Ed.), 345-350
<p>A mechanism of sand boil development during liquefaction is briefly discussed. In particular, the impact of sand boils as potential excess pore-pressure relief mechanisms is investigated within a computational solid-fluid fully coupled effective-stress ...
Reference: 15th Intl. Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey