Dams and Flood control.

Earthwork and embankments are part of nearly every construction project. Considerations include compaction factor, settlement, consolidation settlements, proctor data, nuclear density gauge, sand cone density and other construction QA/QC measures. Rock blasting is a highly technical field and can be a major cost component of projects in rocky terrain.

Geotechnical engineering, geological engineering and other related disciplines are a diverse and complicated field of practice. This Miscellaneous Category holds geo-news that may be relevant to our readers but is somewhat difficult to categorize. 

Engineers and geologists can't get their job done without specialty software and spreadsheets. This category contains tutorials and reviews for visual basic for applications or VBA for Excel, finite element and finite difference methods, gINT boring log software, slope stability software, Geo-Studio, Rockware and other geo-software packages.

Geotechnical engineers and geologists are obligated to practice according to the applicable code standards. Whether it's AASHTO LRFD or allowable stress design, IBC, or some other code, this is the category for articles on the topic. Also, articles related to specification writing for geo-projects can be found here as well.