Geotechnical engineering remains a cornerstone of civil infrastructure, addressing the stability, strength, and deformation behaviour of soil masses and their interaction with built structures. Recent ...

Research engineers at the University of Nevada, Reno’s world-renowned earthquake engineering lab are getting ready to shake up a million pounds of steel and sand. Construction is underway on one of ...

Soil degradation is gradually becoming a major challenge in the world, and one of the biggest drivers of it is the erosion of topsoil. Soil degradation might just be coming to a tipping point if ...

Soil nailing is a widely adopted technique in geotechnical engineering that involves the installation of slender, typically steel, bars into soil to improve slope stability, reinforce excavation walls ...

Madhur Atreya working in the lab. New research from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering into biodegradable sensors may change the way farmers track, measure, and respond in real time ...

At the Arcadia flood risk management project, in Arcadia, Wisconsin, geotechnical staff are gathering data using a unique method of subsurface exploration. The Cone Penetrometer Test, or CPT, is one ...

Agricultural scientists and farmers in Western Australia have found it is possible to more than double the amount of food they grow by re-engineering the soil. Trial work has been conducted at 11 ...

A type of grass that was once a staple of the American prairie can remove soil laden with PCBs, toxic chemicals once used for cooling and other industrial purposes, a study has found. University of ...

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