More art than science, earthwork engineering relied heavily on local custom in 1904 when Karl Terzaghi earned an engineering degree in Austria. After supervising a dam project in Croatia and studying ...

THE objections raised 1 to the name 'soil mechanics' are timely and cogent, but the difficulty is too deep-rooted to be disposed of by a mere change of the title of the science. The main trouble would ...

Although many parts of the world need more affordable housing, a construction boom also brings with it significant greenhouse gas emissions. An architectural firm in Japan is using industrial-scale 3D ...