Snaps to Peter

[BigH]

It is good to see another of our names in print. In the May 2007 issue of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Peter Narsavage's assistance in data collection was acknowledged in Tien H. Wu et. al.'s paper Embankment on Sludge: predicted and observed performance[/] (CGJ Vol44 No 5) - looks like an interesting article which I am going to sit down and read in more detail!. Well done!!

 

[Panars]

Thanks. I was one of T.H. Wu's last graduate students. The work in question was part of my master's thesis. Ohio DOT wanted to build a highway over a water treatment sludge lagoon in an urban area (the area used to be an abandoned quarry). We built a test embankment and instrumented the heck out of it to determine the behavior of the sludge and help with the design of the final embankment. I'm glad to say the full size embanmkent is doing well. I drive over it about once a month.

I'll have to wait until December to read the paper. Ohio DOT doesn't get the print version of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, but we do have electronic access. However, NRC press has a six month delay on the electronic version.

 

[BigH]

Peter: I am a member of Cdn Geo Society and I can download the paper immediately on release. Maybe ODOT should pay the C-note or so and give you a membership. You can download papers for the previous 8 (or 7) years. If you are a member, you can download via the society papers all the way back to Volume 1. Contact at CGS is Sarah Watson.

http://www.cgs.ca

It is a lot cheaper than buying directly from NRC. Cheers

 

[Panars]

First, the state does not pay for any of my professional organization dues, so they aren't going to pay for a Canadian membership. And I am paying for my ASCE membership and Deep Foundations Institute membership. But that is a small gripe because they do provide extensive access to all types of journals. I have electronic access to the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, all the ASCE journals, Computers and Geotechnics, Int. J. for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, various geology journals, etc. etc. And the best part I only discovered recently. I have the same electronic access at home using my Columbus Metropolitan Library Card. A six or twelve month embargo is a small price to pay, and usually the article I happen to be looking for is more than a year old anyway.

The ODOT library does have print subsriptions to most of the ASCE journals, so I get those right away. If our library doesn't have an article or book, they will get it for me through interlibrary loan from anywhere in the country. I have gotten publications from Virginia and Oregon. I could get the CGJ article this way, but it isn't that urgent.

I have to say the library is one of the best perks working for the Ohio DOT.

 

[BigH]

Interesting - but I guess that there would be a lot to join. Working overseas, at least I have enough funds to maintain ASCE (since 1974), DFI, and CGS - and maintain licensing in Ontario and Maine (gave up British Columbia, Yukon and Washington when company stopped paying the tab - no work there - no pay - can't blame them). When I was in India I joined the Indian Roads COngress and Indian Geotechnical Society (lifetime memberships were something less that $20 each! Small price. I do say you have a great library. I was trying to access a paper on continuous compaction of an RCC dam from an International Conference (ICOLD, I think) and it took more than a year for my home office to get - and that was only because one of my friend's bird-dogged the article for me. Over here - it is never seen, never remembered until . . .