Fred H. Kulhawy, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., Dist. M.ASCE, 71, Professor Emeritus of Civil/Geotechnical Engineering at Cornell University, passed away Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at the Cayuga Medical Center. Dr. Kulhawy was an active member of the G-I Deep Foundations Committee for many years (including before the G-I was formed!), including having served as […]
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The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) will be serving as host for the 46th Annual Southeastern Transportation Geotechnical Engineering Conference (STGEC) in Greenville, South Carolina on October 19 – 23, 2015. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, in downtown Greenville. This annual conference draws DOT and consultant engineers […] Committee member Dr. Muhannad Suleiman of Lehigh University was awarded the 2014 Shamser Prakash Prize for Excellence in Teaching earlier this year. The prize is awarded early in the year for the previous calendar year. The Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nominations each year for young teachers (less than 40 years old) whose expertise is […] Committee member Dr. Robert Liang, P.E. will be presenting a webinar on design of laterally loaded deep foundations. The webinar will present the results of a research program funded by the Ohio Department of Transportation The Ohio LTAP Center is pleased host the following Research Results Presentation: Performance Based Design of Laterally Loaded Drilled […] The DFI has a few research or publication efforts underway. The recent DFI July News listed two that are requesting input from DFI members and the industry. One is a State of Practice Survey for helical piles. The other is a collection of driven pile case histories. More information from DFI is included […] One of the goals/efforts of this blog is to try to encourage readers to find interesting papers, projects, and the like in our industry. This post is one of those “look what is out there” posts. Author Note: The first pair of papers is on driven H-piles in cohesive soils and was […] The ADSC SE Chapter has been sponsoring a research project on rock-socketed drilled shafts in the Southeast U.S. The project started in 2008 with testing conducted a the first site in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. The Lawrenceville site was tested in 2011 and is the second site for the project. The report for this […] The ADSC is working on the second in a series of test sites around the Southeast U.S. for a research project to generate load test data for rock sockets in this part of the country. Two test shafts were installed the week of July 26th at the yard of Foundation Technologies, Inc. One included […] SCHEDULE UPDATE – CLICK HERE (6/27/11) After some lengthy delays, the rock-socketed drilled shaft research sponsored by the Southeast Chapter of the ADSC is back on track. A second site has been selected at the site of Foundation Technologies, Inc. in Lawrenceville, Georgia. This site will investigate the resistance of some of the rocks […] |
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