This is a 3-day workshop/short course to teach practicing professionals techniques and procedures for conducting high quality geotechnical laboratory tests. Transportation facility design and construction begins with an investigation of the type, extent and quality of the foundation materials. The determination of the appropriate and accurate parameters is paramount in executing safe and economical design.
While structural engineering deals with mostly homogeneous manmade materials (e.g., concrete and steel), geotechnical engineering typically involves h...
The work completed in this project created a series of online lab modules thattransportation professionals could use as a reference to learn how to co...
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