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 ...

Take a look out at this landscape. What do you notice? Credit: Shutterstock Take a walk outside. Get some fresh air. What do you notice around you? Buildings, trees, and the sky may be on your list, ...

Pilings based on snakeskin are easier to drive into soil and more difficult to pull out, according to lab tests at the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling. These pilings could one day support ...

AMES, Iowa – The satellite images are full of red warnings: Miles and miles of bright red along the Louisiana coast; boiling reds covering most of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. The images show harmful ...

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 ...

Ary Bruand is a professor at Université d'Orléans (President of the university of Orleans from 2016 to 2020). His research has primarily focused on the structure of soil and its mechanical, hydric, ...

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Growing up in Haiti, Northwestern Engineering’s Ludmilla Aristilde looked critically at the land and thought about how soil sustains plants. This came naturally; her father was both an educator and ...

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering participates in the Graduate Master's Co-op Option in Engineering. For detailed information about the Co-op Program and curriculum requirements, ...

A shovel should slide into healthy soil with satisfying ease. When the blade bounces back like it just struck concrete, the ground sends a very clear message: the soil needs help. Compacted soil stops ...