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Civil Engineering News Recap of November 2024
- Dec, 04, 2024
- Tunneling Sustainable Development Structural Systems Offshore Geotechnics General Construction General Civil Other Geotechnical Bridge Design Bridges Deep Excavations Shaft Foundations
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of November 2024. Namely, these were: 1) A...
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Digging Deep: Toronto’s Ontario Line Launch Shaft Construction Begins
- Nov, 28, 2024
- Tunneling Deep Excavations Shaft Foundations News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Toronto
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Excavation work is officially underway for the Ontario Line’s TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) launch shaft near Exhibition Station, marking a historic moment for Toronto. This 16-meter-deep shaft will se...
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Video shows the moment apartment building sinks by one floor in Taipei
Footage has emerged showing an apartment building in Taipei, Taiwan, sinking by one floor into the ground on the evening of Thursday, September 7. Furthermore, reports were made to the Taipei City G...
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China has started digging an 11,100-meter deep borehole
- Jun, 16, 2023
- Deep Excavations Geomorphology Site Characterization & In-Situ Testing (General) Other Geotechnical
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
China started digging an 11,100-meter-deep borehole late in May. Furthermore, the borehole is located in China’s largest desert, the Taklimakan Desert, and drilling started on May 30. The project a...
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Starship’s crater on the launch pad and the purpose of flame trenches
- Apr, 21, 2023
- Deep Excavations Underground Structures Other Geotechnical
- United States
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Some footage emerged from the Starship’s launch pad after it took off on April 20, showing a crater left by the fumes of its enormous engines under the Orbital Launch Mount (OLM). Another video sho...
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ADONIS: A Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers
- Mar, 21, 2023
- General Finite Element Programs Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Tunneling Other Geotechnical Mining Soil Mechanics Visualization General Civil General Civil General Civil
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
ADONIS is a Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers. It is an easy-to-use tool for modelling and computational simulation of geotechnical problems, including linear and nonlinear analysis me...
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Open-pit coal mine collapse in China
- Mar, 02, 2023
- Deep Excavations Erosion Landslides Mining Slope Stability
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An open-pit coal mine collapsed in Alxa League in Inner Mongolia, China, on Wednesday the 22nd of February. A 180-meter-tall slope failure caused the mine to be buried under a very large volume of...
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Fehmarnbelt Tunnel: The longest underwater rail and road tunnel in the world will connect Germany and Denmark
- Feb, 08, 2023
- Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Underground Structures Deep Excavations Other Geotechnical
- Germany
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An 18-kilometer underwater tunnel will soon connect Germany and Denmark. It should be mentioned that when it is finished, in 2029, the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be the longest combined rail and road tu...
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The longest railway tunnel in Nordics handed over
- Nov, 23, 2022
- Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Tunneling In Soils Deep Excavations Transportation Geotechnics Other Geotechnical
- Norway
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The 20km long Blix tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in Scandinavia and the first Norwegian railway tunnel with two separate tunnel tubes. It has been completed by joint venture Acciona Ghella (AG...
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Chile: mining areas connected to giant sinkhole were permanently closed
- Oct, 17, 2022
- Other Geotechnical Deep Excavations Reconnaissance Of Natural Disasters
- Chile
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The permanent closure of mining stopes directly related to a giant sinkhole, that appeared in the northern part of the country in July, was announced by Chile's mining minister on Friday (07 October...
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