WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An Italian professor will speak about two of the world's significant structures during a visit to Purdue University this week. Michele Jamiolkowski, professor emeritus at the ...

ABSTRACT: Liquefaction of soils has been widely recognized as an important cause of damage in many past earthquakes. Although recognized and named in the early 1950s (Mogami and Kubo, 1953; Terzaghi, ...

The Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics group frequently holds public seminars from visiting researchers and practitioners. If you are interested in giving a seminar, please contact one of the ...

On May 22nd, 2018, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department hosted David Muir Wood as part of our annual Osterberg Lecture. David Muir Wood visited Northwestern for an extended period of ...

Seminar abstract: The Millennium Tower is a 58-story reinforced concrete building that was constructed in San Francisco, California between 2005 and 2009. The tower is founded on an embedded, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University has founded a new society for researchers and engineers who specialize in geotechnical engineering, a field that deals with building structures on top of and ...

Civil geotechnical engineering is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to understanding soil–structure interactions and ensuring the safe transfer of loads from man‐made structures to the ground. At ...

Geotechnical Engineers lead in the creation and improvement of infrastructure above and below ground and in the evaluation and mitigation of natural hazards. The MS in Geotechnical Engineering at ...

I was posting up with a friend back in my hometown over the holidays when the subject of his line of work came up. My compadre - whom I’ve known since we dominated the local pee-wee hoops circuit - ...