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This is a very difficult task that you are presenting. Professional associations in Canada typically ananlyze professional engineering salaries with the full range of spectrums from the most senior personnel to the junior woodchuck. Costs for geotechnical investigations are suspect and I doubt...

I wonder if this is c - Phi soil?

You have a very interesting situation. Most Businesses are valued on their EBITDA which is annual Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization. This number comes right off the companies tax returns and then a multiplier is used. In times of good economics (which was in 2006)...

you could try logplot, its about the same as gINT maybe a little harder to use.

dgillette, I completely agree with you regarding tackling projects that are not in your area of expertise. I also agree that on larger projects, a team of technical specialists is required and yes the project this young person has described appears to be a large project. I do feel that the...

geotechniqa, I can appreciate your situation. As I was a young engineer once, I understand, as an employer, I want to see what you got to offer. Why are you getting that salary and bonuses and how can you contribute to the firm? You may want to really think about turning tail on this one and...

Thanks PSlem

hokie66, Thanks for your comments. You are correct, that they are expanded base piles, but not to be confused with belled piles. These are cased and the pile consists of a gravel and portland cement mixture. There has got to be some design data out there for this..........I have seen AMEC...

Well before we throw the baby out with the bath water......check the compressive strength of the cores to confirm. If bad, then we have a problem......were they all bad....or just a few......so do we core them all or is it just a select few........if it is just a few, possibly installing a...

Ok, I've done several searches on this site over the last four years for Franki pile design and have always returned empty handed. Every once in a while, in my travels, I come across a site that would be ideal for Franki piles.........a very competant bearing strata located approximately 35 to...

I would say no..........by removing the gravel from the sample, you are changing the soil. The gravel portion is part of the soil matrix.........unless they will be screening the soil through the 4.75 mm sieve prior to placement or it's intended use. For example you have 10% gravel, 45% sand...

Again I am amazed with everyones posts here. I think they are all great.....keep them coming. I think the variety is really cool as well.....some are religious based and some are more rules of thumb and others are just hey this seems to be working for me....try it out. I really think this...

Prohammy, Nicely put......my philosophy has always been....First Things First......but not necessarily in that order....LOL.

Wow.....unbelievable....most of the technical posts I write take several days for people to reply and usually they don't have too much to say and usually it is just a couple responses. I was just courious to see what kind of response I would get to this type of post and it is obvious that...

We've all heard the joke engineers have a spouse and something on the side...so while they are occupied with eachother the engineer ducks back to the office to get some work done. How many of you engineers out there are going through some "significant other" problems? How many of you....know...