In particular, the course will consider three topics of current professional and research interest: probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PHSA), soil liquefaction, and seismically induced ...

Practical Engineering How Soil Destroys Buildings Posted: February 19, 2025 | Last updated: February 19, 2025 Expansive soils cause more property damage per year than earthquakes, floods ...

Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability ... workshops in the use of instruments such as penetrometers, torvane shears, and engineering rods. Upon course ...

According to Mark Conrardy, sales engineering manager at Wacker ... the operator instead of being consumed in the soil." Consequently, the most practical and obvious sign of over compaction ...

Freezing water in the ground is a growing application in construction emergencies, and is emerging as an engineering strategy ... water cutoff projects. Frozen soil shoring for an access shaft ...

Researchers have developed a freeze-drying method that preserves biocement-producing bacteria, allowing easy use in ...

Uday Vaddevolu, Ph.D., has joined the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering as an assistant professor.

Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how an approach focused on direction and principles, rather than numerical targets and ...