On this day in 1635: Robert Hooke was born. Robert Hooke was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect. In geology and paleontology, Hooke originated the theory of a terraqueous globe, disputed the literally Biblica.

On this day in 1817: Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet was born. Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was engineer for the world's fi.

On 3 March 2009, a sudden collapse of the Cologne City Archives building and two adjacent residential structures occurred during the construction of the North-South metro line.

Simulating real-world groundwater conditions is critical for safe and efficient geotechnical design.

On this day in 1813: Ellis S. Chesbrough was born. Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough was an engineer credited with the design of the Chicago sewer system, which are sometimes known as the 'Chesbrough sewers'. This was the first comprehensive sewer system in.

On this day in 1820: William Rankine was born. William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomso.

In this webinar series on Green Energies, first we will focus on the geotechnical analysis and design aspects of the Hydropower project infrastructures like dams, spillways, embankments, underground caverns, and tunnels etc.

Over 500 earthquakes shook Japan’s Tokara Islands in June 2025, with the strongest tremors reaching magnitude 5.

In this talk, we will discuss designing retaining walls in PLAXIS, focusing on the challenges posed by the two very different methodologies, i.

The Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia is the site of a large-scale renewable energy development project.

Offshore wind development at Denmark’s Jammerland Bugt site has entered a pivotal phase, as geotechnical surveys are now underway to support the final design of a 240 MW wind farm.

A five-storey building in Shimla's Bhattakufar area collapsed on June 30, 2025, following a prolonged period of heavy rainfall.

The Universal Adapter is designed to lower cost and increase safety in tieback and seawall applications.

The Hoek–Brown model is one of the most widely adopted constitutive models for simulating rock mass behavior in geotechnical engineering.

The NGI-ADP model is an anisotropic elastoplastic constitutive model used to simulate the behavior of soft to stiff clays under various loading conditions.

The Modified Cam-Clay (MCC) model is a widely used critical state-based constitutive model for simulating the behavior of fine-grained soils, especially clays.

This webinar explores how PLAXIS 2D and 3D can be used together to simulate complex tunnel excavations and design effective support systems in weak, deformable ground.

Chance recently released GroutForce™ screw displacement pile (GDP). It is being installed and tested across North America in various soil types.

As we live in an era where tunnelling and underground technologies are rapidly gaining traction worldwide, it becomes increasingly essential to address the environmental and geo-structural challenges that accompany this surge in underground developme.

Anchors are commonly used to stabilize structures by resisting uplift, lateral, or overturning forces.