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Soil Stabilization And Ground Improvement Method Using Stone Crushed Piles, Erdal Emre Çeçen, Xhoana Nogu

UBT International Conference

The treatment and reinforcement of soils with the replacement and vibration method (vibro replacement) is one of the compaction techniques, through which friable or weak soils are improved with the aim of being used as a supporting base for foundations. With replacement and vibration improvement the benefits and results that can be achieved guarantee the required behavior of the foundation base. This paper presents the works made for the construction of gravel piles in the plot located in the port of Durrës, Albania. The reinforcement with ballast piles is carried out to reduce consolidation subsidence and to avoid liquefaction that …

Characterizing Potentially Harmful Environmental Legacy Issues Within A Declining Midwest City: A Street Sediment Study Of Northeastern Terre Haute, Indiana, Katelyn Adams '24, Ken Brown

Senior Scholarly and Creative Symposium

Urban settings face unprecedented environmental challenges that include legacy issues as well as emerging pollution problems (e.g., micro-plastics) that continually impact the public health of its communities. Determining the baseline abundances of potentially harmful contaminants in soil, sediment, air, and water is essential to protecting residents. This study examines anthropogenic pollution in street sediments collected from three neighborhoods located in northeast Terre Haute, Indiana. Using stereomicroscopy, SEM/EDS, pXRF analyses, and geospatial analysis (GIS), the goal of this work is to characterize the types of pollutants present and place important constraints on their potential sources.

Stereomicroscopy on nine street sediment samples …

Uc-172 Grizzly's Maw - Gameplay Trailer, Allen J. Harris

C-Day Computing Showcase

A brief gameplay trailer that includes a majority of mechanics that are currently implemented, and a voice over that explains the premise and appeal of the game. Gameplay video available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bYP3Ef-tymRI4QvIQxoVWNwMvHJo86Ja/view?usp=sharing

Rehabilitation And Optimization Of The Water Supply Distribution Network Of Durrës, Andrin Kërpaçi, Ilir Abdullahu

UBT International Conference

The condition of the water supply and the actual functioning of the distribution network in Durres area are inadequate to sustain demand at an acceptable level of service for all the billing zones.The distribution network of Durres city is fed at one point (Xhafzotaj junction) for 300-350 l/s with an elevation of about 50 m asl. The planned new transmission line has a diameter of 700 mm and will bring extra 630 l/s.The water distribution systems are one of the vital urban infrastructures and their operationwith a high level of service are of high importance.Many phenomena in water supply systems …

Regulation Of Large Dairy Farms In Karst Regions Of The United States, Jesse J. Richardson Jr.

Sinkhole Conference 2020

During the past several years, an increasing number of large dairy farms have located, or proposed to locate, in karst terrain in the Midwestern United States. The large amounts of manure produced by such dairy farms proves especially problematic to groundwater in karst terrain. Controversies have erupted in Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin, among other states. In response to the proposed dairies, citizen groups have filed a number of lawsuits against the dairy operators, the dairy industry has filed lawsuits against state agencies, and states have enacted heightened regulations for dairy operations in karst. The majority of the debates have centered …

Home Rule And The Environment: Exploring How Municipalities Address Environmental Policy Gaps Including Farmland Solar Policy And Pipeline Routing, Heidi Robertson, Sarah Fox, Genevieve Byrne

West Virginia Law Review Events

No abstract provided.

Looking Past, Looking Forward: America's National Parks, Archaeology And Climate Change, Rachel Blumhardt

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

America’s National Parks are rich with cultural history, flora, fauna and some of nature’s most impressive landscapes. As climate change continues to accelerate, these parks and their cultural and natural resources are being threatened. In this project, I will present a colorful, informational powerpoint that concentrates on 4 specific parks: Yellowstone National Park, National Park of American Samoa, Glacier Bay National Park and Mesa Verde National Park. I will focus on the archaeology and cultural significance of these parks, while also examining the ways that climate change is putting these, and other associated assets of the parks, at risk. I …

Studies Of The Appalachian Karst: 1770 – Present, Ernst H. Kastning

Sinkhole Conference 2018

The Appalachian region, extending from New England to Alabama, includes one of the most extensive regions of karst in the United States. It is a complex geologic terrain and has been studied for nearly 250 years. The history of karst study in the region is organized into eight frames of time: (1) Early American Notes and Records, (2) Age of Curiosity, (3) Exploration and Early Tourism, (4) Birth of Modern U.S. Speleology, (5) Landmark Speleogenetic Studies, (6) Organized Caving and Science, (7) Speleological Inflation, and (8) Applied and Environmental Science. Karst science has progressed from merely descriptive accounts to detailed …

B3: Paleo-Dunes And Other Post-Glacial Oddities In The Woods And Fields Of New Sharon And Chesterville, Me, Patricia M. Millette, Benjamin Andrews, Anna Glass, Thaddeus Gunther, Roshan Luick

New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 2017

Guidebook for field trips in Western Maine and Northern New Hampshire: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, p. 161-176.

Schellenberger Ice Cave (Germany): A Conceptual Model Of Temperature And Airflow, Christiane Meyer Cm, Andreas Pflitsch Ap, David Holmgren Dh, Valter Maggi Vm

The International Workshop on Ice Caves

In this paper the primarily results of air temperature measurements from 2007 to 2013 are presented. The focus lies on the climatic description of the thermal conditions of the different ice cave parts and the related conceptual model of the airflow regime. The data will also show seasonal aspects of air temperature caused by the specific winter versus summer conditions. This basic data are the beginning for an interdisciplinary research project, which focuses on the microclimatological and glaciological processes and dynamics of the cave.

Paleohydrology And The Origin Of Jewel Cave, Mike Wiles

National Cave and Karst Management Symposium 2013

With more than 267 m (166 miles) of mapped cave passages, Jewel Cave is the third longest cave in the world. The passages are beneath an area of 775 ha (3 mi²), located almost entirely within the Hell Canyon drainage basin. The canyon itself is situated in the bottom of a south-plunging syncline and most of the cave passages are located within the east limb. A down-dip cross section shows the cave passages assuming the shape of an elongate lens, located just below the Pahasapa/Minnelusa contact. The lower boundary is a maximum of 75 m (250 feet) below …

Evaluating Karst Risk At Proposed Windpower Projects, William J. Bangsund, Kenneth S. Johnson

Sinkhole Conference 2013

pg(s) 27-36

Evaporite Karst In The Black Hills, South Dakota And Wyoming, And The Oil Play In The Williston Basin, North Dakota And Montana, Jack B. Epstein, Daniel H. Doctor

Sinkhole Conference 2013

pg(s) 161-175

Lessons Learned From Occurrence Of Sinkholes Related To Man-Made Cavities In A Town Of Southern Italy, Pietro Pepe, Nunzia Pentimone, Giuditta Garziano, Vincenzo Martimucci, Mario Parise

Sinkhole Conference 2013

pg(s) 393-401

Finding F.O.S For Flow Type Landslide With Static Liquefaction At Karshingsa – A Case Study, Gokul K. Bayan

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Karshingsa is a hilly terrain situated in lower Himalayan region under Arunachal Pradesh in India. It expresses occurrence of severe landslides of debris flow nature almost every year as and when consecutive 3-month rainfall precipitation during peak monsoon period exceeds about 2,300 mm, all along the lower Himalayan region of Eurasian plateau most particularly in Karshingsa area. Study carried out in the lower belt of Arunachal Himalaya for about more than one decade proclaims that 45%-55% landslides are flow type origin, the debris of which are flowing like liquid. Mechanism of such flow failure is static liquefaction developed in a …

Failures And Remediation Of Rock Slope Stability Problems And Remediation At Earthquakes At Part Of Werka Descent Road West Of Saudi Arabia, Bahaaeldin Sadagah

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Werka descent road lies at western region of Saudi Arabia. It is constructed two years ago harmed due to rainstorm and absence of remedial measures. Werka mountainous road subjected to failures of man-made rock slope faces, and debris flow along both sides of 8-m width road. Intensive geotechnical study includes the RMR and GSI rock masses classifications were applied indicates that the rocks are medium to poor quality. The integrated techniques such as graphical method, modeling, and simulation were utilized to assess rock slope failures and rockfalls by using DIPS, RocFall, RocPlane and Swedge programs, and recommend the remedial measures …

Effect Of The Soil Spatial Variability On The Static And Dynamic Stability Analysis Of A Lebanese Slope, Mansour Neaimeh, Rony Azar, Roni Hmaymes, Georges Nasr, Dalia Youssef Abdel Massih, Jacques Harb, Nancy Salloum, Cécile Cornou, Denis Jongmans

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

The accidental topography and heterogeneous Lebanese geology in addition to the active seismicity have initiated the static and dynamic stability analysis of Lebanese slopes. In this paper, the stability of a sandy Lebanese slope situated at Mansourieh near Beirut is investigated using deterministic and probabilistic approaches. The characterization of the variability of the slope soil properties is done based on geological investigation, as well as geophysical (Resistivity and Ambient noise) and geotechnical tests performed on this slope. Three dimensional 3D static deterministic analyses is performed to determine the overall safety factor of the slope and to find the location of …

Over Eight Decades Old “Young” Landslide – A Case Study, Kishor Kumar, P. S. Prasad, Anil Kathait, Indervir Singh

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Shirobagad also named as Kaliasaur Landslide was developed in the year 1920 at kilometer-147 on National Highway – 58 (earlier named as State Highway - 45) at latitude 300 14’ 30” N and longitude780 53’ 57” in Garhwal region of western Himalaya. This landslide has been investigated by a number of organizations in India and a wealth of data has been generated mainly on geological aspects. Central Road Research Institute has also investigated this landslide during 2007-2011 covering geological as well as geotechnical aspects. The study area basically encompasses metavolcanis and variants of quartzite rock (e.g. pink and white quartzite) …

Stabilization And Reinforcement Of Slope With Geogrid: A Case Study, Khashayar Hemmati, Seyed Vahid Masoomi, Javad Nazari Afshar

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

This paper presents a case study example of appropriate method selection of stabilization and reinforcement of slope by introducing engineering and economical aspects. Introduced slope is located in science and research campus of Islamic Azad University (IAU) in north of Tehran with height of 4-29 m and length of 370 m. A big building with 9 floors and total area of 70000 square meters is located upper and near edge of slope, so that existence of this building has increased sensitivity of projects design and construction method. Slope is located in vulnerable area with a high risk of seismicity based …

The Surface Distribution Of Oil Spills, The Environmental Status Of The Visoka Oilfield, Its Rehabilitation Ways: Case Study, Nevton Kodhelaj, Aida Bode, Piro Zoga, Nevina Koja, Esmeralda Zeqo, Dulian Zeqiraj

UBT International Conference

Visoka oilfield was explored in 1963 through the well G-622. In this oilfield had been drilled more than 170 production wells. Through all this years of its exploitation, mainly because of the outdated technology, the environmental pollution reached really dramatic values. The pollution extends on the Visoka village, affecting so the life for the entire community. The oil spills, the gas emissions and the formation water affected and polluted and ―k illed‖ the Gjanica River, its delta and the Adriatic coast in the Semani beach. Due to the technology and the completely wrong policies, used in the past, the wells …

General Report — Session 7, Jorge F. Meneses, Ioannis Anastasopoulos

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

No abstract provided.

Field And Laboratory Tests In Seman Deposits, Luljeta Bozo, Skender Allkja, Lorena Harizaj

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The construction of the big energetic park near the spilling of the river needed a geotechnical study to be performed by thoroughly investigations of the sand’s deposits. We would like to present in these papers all the field investigations, laboratory tests and geotechnical study carried out by “ALTEA&GEOSTUDIO2000” laboratory in order to identify the behavior of soils under static and seismic loads. It is possible to create some geotechnical models based on this study and to determine their behavior under static and seismic conditions.

State Of The Art And Practice (Soap) Speakers, Multiple Authors

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of The Elastic Displacement Demand: Case Study - Sofia City, Ivanka Paskaleva, Mihaela Kouteva, Franco Vaccari, Giuliano F. Panza

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The results of the study on the seismic site response of a part of the metropolitan Sofia are discussed. The neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment procedure has been used to compute realistic synthetic waveforms considering four earthquake scenarios, with magnitudes M=3.7, M=6.3 and M = 7.0. Source and site specific ground motion time histories are computed along three selected cross sections, making use of the hybrid approach, combining the modal summation technique and the finite differences scheme. Displacement and acceleration response spectra are considered. These results are validated against the design elastic displacement response spectra and displacement demand, recommended in Eurocode …

Evaluating Seismicity Parameters Of Sanandaj, Iran Based On Instrumental Earthquakes, Kaveh Andisheh, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Motaza Taghizadeh

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the seismic parameters of Sanandaj, Iran. For this reason, at first, all the occurred instrumental earthquakes (1900-2006) in a radius of 200 km of Sanandaj city have been gathered. After elimination of the aftershocks and foreshocks, the main earthquakes were taken into consideration to calculate the seismic parameters by Gutenberg-Richter method, cumulative distribution functions, and Kijko-Sellevoll approach. This paper aims at estimation of seismicity parameters based on the seismic events and the relation between the cumulative frequency of earthquake occurrence and its magnitude. For this purpose the variable windows in time …

Uniform Seismic Hazard Spectra Of Sanandaj, Iran, Kaveh Andisheh, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Seyed Ali Razavian Amrei

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

This paper presents uniform seismic hazard spectra of Sanandaj city of Iran. Sanandaj is the administrative center of Kurdistan province, in which more than 500,000 people live in. A collected catalogue, containing both historical and instrumental events and covering the period from the 10th century BC to the year 2006, is used. Then seismic sources and The seismotectonic model of the considered region have been modeled within the radius of 200 km and recurrence relationship is established. After elimination of the aftershocks and foreshocks, the main earthquakes were taken into consideration to calculate the seismic parameters. For this purpose the …

The Rose Canyon Fault Zone In San Diego, Thomas Rockwell

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The Rose Canyon fault bisects the City of San Diego, producing much of the unique beauty of the city with the uplift of Mt. Soledad and subsidence producing the natural harbor of San Diego Bay. Geologic studies demonstrate that the late Quaternary slip rate is in the range of 1-2 mm/yr, which although only a fraction of the plate margin slip budget, has the potential to produce major damage in “America’s finest city”. Paleoseismic trenching in La Jolla and downtown San Diego indicate that the most recent surface rupture occurred only a few hundred years ago, sometime after about AD1523 …

Understanding Seismic Embankment Dam Behavior Through Case Histories, Pedro Simão Sêco E Pinto

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

From the lessons learned from past earthquakes, it is noticed that modern embankment dams withstand the design earthquake without significant damages. In spite of this scenario it is important to prevent the occurrence of incidents and accidents of embankment dams during the earthquakes and so a deep understanding of the triggering factors is important. Well documents case histories from many parts of the world related embankment dams behaviour during recent earthquakes were carefully selected and are discussed. Based in the governed factors attention is given to the requirements for materials characterization, modelling, analysis, monitoring and safety evaluation. Ageing effects and …

Ancient Landslide Reactivation At The Viaduct No. 1 Located On The Caraca-La-Guaira Highway In Venezuela, Luis B. Fargier-Gabaldón, Daniel A. Salcedo, Rosendo Camargo-Mora

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Reactivation of an ancient landslide detected in 1987 affected the southern side of the Viaduct No.1 located in the Caracas-La Guaira highway, which connects Caracas, capital of Venezuela, with its main seaport and the Simon Bolivar International Airport. The Viaduct was built in 1953 and covered a gorge of approximately 300 m. It consisted of three parallel double-hinged arch ribs made of plain concrete spanning over approximately 152 m and two smaller access Viaducts on either side of the arch rib span. This paper summarizes the results from geotechnical investigation, the evaluation of inclinometers readings and surface control points and …

State Of The Art And Practice (Soap), Multiple Authors

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

No abstract provided.