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    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse

    wonder if the neighboring construction included dewatering? f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    BigH Update

    great update! Yes, part of your trip looked great! f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Water Content of a soil sample

    run Atterberg limits. Replicate the LL on an oven-dried sample. Gauge if the LL was reduced by more than 25% (i.e., <75% of its original value). May be an OL or an OH? Data may be real. These soils are highly prone to long term secondary compression - i.e., decades and decades! f-d ípapß...
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    Fully Softened Shear Strength

    just run a normally consolidated DDS with the sample hydrated to the liquid limit. Peak is FSS, residual is residual. Not to take away from Tim's correlations; however. But, if you have a lab, run the test and record the value. I don't believe you will get there with a CU-bar or a...
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    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse

    ongoing settlement over decades certainly seems related to the problem. Seems a, "pop-type" failure, for sure. Live load considerations? Shoreline rebar deterioration and or inadequate cover from the onset. Such a catastrophe! f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Poor Drainage - Hard Clays to Soft Clays

    100 percent of all design strength is obtained on saturated soils. It's a fallacy to say that when soil gets wet it loses design strength. Critical void ratio is a factor. f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Settlement - Conventional/Log (Cr, Cc, eo) vs. Linear (mv) Pressure Scales

    I think I'd use modulus for residual soils. There are a few exceptions, like the epi-Karst elastic silts. Then I'd use Cc, Cr, Cv, Pp and Po. f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    How to design a slope to fail?

    build an MSE (mechanically stabilized earth) retaining wall. Install a perforated pipe in the reinforced zone. Provide no wall drainage. Use clayey sand backfill and poor backfill. Instrument it. Charge the perforated pipe with water. Watch what happens. f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    News from Italy

    autumn leaves is on the same list as, "On Green Dolphin Street!" Love those tunes! f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Soil in drained vs undrained condition

    somewhere behind the scene is the subject of critical void ratio. I'm not sure I can easily contribute much more as this is a complicated topic that's seemingly an easy question. f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Jazz Appreciation Month - April 2021

    Yes! Eric Kloss is just great! I checked out Robert Glasper. He's doing something! f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Does the subgrade modulus reaction Ks value differentiate between Raft and Raft-on-piles???

    there is no subgrade modulus for a pile supported slab. f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Jazz Appreciation Month - April 2021

    you listen to, "Acid Jazz?" I kind of enjoy that subset too! Yesterday, I had Brooklyn Funk Essentials on the audio and wondered. . . Brooklyn Recycles was the tune. You may like it? Google it on YouTube to get an idea of that group. I also like Karl Denson and his various groups. I think...
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    Construction a five stories building on Saturated Sand Soil

    are you above or below the critical void ratio? f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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    Controlled fill QC

    Hi Azza, Yes, you're example is my approach. The shift is along the Line of Optimums, which is how you drew it. There was a provisional ASTM on this topic. My former boss, Steven Poulous drafted it. He was a founder of a US firm, GEI. f-d ípapß gordo ainÆt no madre flaca!
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