Two dams breached in Midland County, Michigan, causing flooding and the evacuation of 10,000 local residents after days of heavy rains. The Edenville Dam and the Sanford Dam both experienced “catastrophic dam failures” affecting the […] The post Two Michigan Dam’s Breach, Thousands Evacuated appeared first on GeoPrac.net.

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Registration is now open at http://www.dfi.org/S3-2020 for DFI’s S3: Slopes, Slides and Stabilization webinar being held Wednesday, August 5, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (US). The webinar is part of an ongoing software discussion series for DFI’s S3: Slopes, Slides and Stabilization conferences developed to further industry understanding of the use of software…

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Registration is Open for DFI’s Virtual S3: Slopes, Slides and Stabilization Software-Series Webinar — Pile Buck Magazine

by Don C. Warrington, PhD, P.E., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Introduction Sheet pile design and analysis is an important part of geotechnical engineering, and is well documented in publications such as Sheet Pile Design by Pile Buck. The advent of software such as SPW 911 has made executing this design a much simpler task…

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Basic Configuration of Sheet Pile Design Analysis — Pile Buck Magazine

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Soil Mechanics: Lateral Earth Pressure

Posted in Academic Issues, Geotechnical Engineering

Soil Mechanics: Slope Stability

Note: this is the first video presentation I did for this course when the COVID emergency hit in March 2020. There were many more for this and my other courses, some of which led to this award in 2021. The material I teach has changed since I made this video.