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The firm for I work has been requested as third party in a dispute between two other firms. As far as i know, the project involved considers a 15 story building with two basement levels. Apparently dispute started due to a complain of someone with building contractor that was...
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I'm trying to figurre out how many measuring compaction methods are using around the world, I know some nevertheles from time to time some guy refer a method that might or might not exist
I'm familiar with methods used in US, Mx and Canada, please let me know of other methods that i'm...
Is anybody familiar with the use of a device called phicometer? I understand that, this is a device used in connection with the Menard pressuremeter to obtain shear strength and phi values, unfortunatly that is all I know about this test. The firm I'm working for, is providing CMT services to a...
Hello everybody:
I work in a really young geotechnical firm that is growing in Northern Mexico, now we have been required to send a proposal for a 600 ft height building. No one in the company even in the region has faced a project like this before, so we are looking for a source of information...
I'm dealing with a site located within a zone that is experimenting subsidence phenomenon, the subsidence ratio is about 1.5 inches per year. This movements are the result of an excesive extraction of ground water, it has been estimated that inflow defficit is about 239 millions of cubic meters...
Some days ago a structural engineer asked me about if I know something about reinforcing rigid pavements for seismic purposes.
Is there any code or desing manual regarding to this issue?. I'm do not find sense in that, but you never know, I hardly believe that additional reinforcement could...
