Here is information on the current road condition:
0.6 mile arterial road (north bound only) with PCI of 35. The road is 32 years old.
Options are full reconstruction and full depth reclamation
Field investigation has not been performed yet. Here is what I was thinking to do for...
Is anyone familiar with adhesion and interface friction shear strength properties obtained from interface shear tests (large scale sandwich tests using soils and geosynthetics) ?
We use these interface shear strength properties for landfill liner-soil slope stability.
I want to know if it is...
Hi. Is there anyone here who does or has done before both geotechnical (investigation report, recommendations, pressure distribution, passive resistance, etc)and the structural aspects (draw the force diagram and design the structural member)for shoring design ?
I am a geotechnical engineer...
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I am trying to become more proficient in writing geotechnical reports and providing recommendations but sometimes get frustrated by things that just don't make logical sense in the industry.
I am from Southern California and all reports I have seen (from other companies) have a...
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I wanted to see what the materials testing/geotechnical companies that do a large amount of construction field inspections use for reporting data (pictures, field dailies, test data, etc.) For dailies we ask the inspectors/technicians to fill out an electronic...
I need recommendations for tiltmeter brand to purchase or rent. It looks like all the tiltmeters are now wireless with cloud capabilities for data transfer. I know the major brands are DGSI, GEOKON, RST. It seems the major rental company is Geo-Instruments.
What is your thought on other lesser...
We are a geotechnical/civil/construction inspections company . We have about 20 employees. It is 8 engineers and 12 field lab and field personnel. The one's in the lab/field do not do project management and only need simple time sheet entry and expense sheet entry.
We have about 6 project...
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We are a geotechnical firm in southern california (orange county) and as you know many times we work for an A/E firm that hires us. I have a question regarding the standard procedures for utility clearance for geotechnical and environmental drilling.
We usually place the two statement...
We have designed a new (re-construction) flexible pavement section (AC over AB) for an existing parking lot and now the project is going for bidding. The existing section is 4" AC over 4" AB.
The bidding contractors want to know if they can re-use the existing AB and place new AC over it.
Is...
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I want know which states/transportation agencies/counties/cities require the use of Resilent Modulus Lab testing of subgrade soils for pavement design. Caltrans recently adopted the mechanistic-emperical method which requires use of the resilient modulus parameter. Caltrans is...
