Talk:Geotechnical engineering

message: I've started a major reworking of this page, and I'm curious about the translations. There's a little symbol which says that it's been translated into three other languages, but those translations aren't current with my edits. Does the symbol mean that an article exists, or that a current article exists? Argyriou 19:26, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: These edits are not, by and large, improvements to this article. The flow of the introduction has been broken up; some of it is now in passive voice which is inappropriate, and subjects are not treated in terribly logical order anymore. I'll be selectively reverting most of these edits in the next few days when I have time. Argyriou (talk) 07:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - Basar 18:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: recent edits, 8 and 9 december 2006

message: In the consolidation section, it says soils can be "under consolidated"?  How can this be?  OCR (in general) is defined as 
\frac{\sigma_{max}}{\sigma_{current}} \geq 1.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.187.161.97 (talk • contribs) 23:26, July 28, 2007
:Welcome to Wikipedia. I believe soil can be considered under consolidated right after a new load is applied, before it has time to consolidate. -- Basar (talk · contribs) 00:34, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to be sure I'm not falling off my rocker, I grabbed a book from the shelf and looked up underconsolidated. Here is what James K. Mitchell and Kenichi Soga say in "Fundamentals of Soil Behavior" 3rd ed (): {sigma_{max}}<{sigma_{current}} a soil is underconsolidated as "The soil has not yet reached equilibrium under the present overburden owing to the time required for consolidation." (p328) Consolidation is related to time; when an additional load is applied, it takes time for the soil to reach an OCR of one such that during this time, the OCR is less than one. Questions? ZueJay (talk) 02:19, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions about current geotechnical engineering page 

message: Please add articles, priorities and comments here:
Soil 
Clay 
Please add to these articles. Drillerguy 19:36, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are quite a number of Wikipedia articles that refer to "monopile foundation" but I can't seem to find any WP article (e.g., monopile, or monopile foundation, as of Sep 2009, both come up as red links) that describes a monopile foundation.  Nor does the article Foundation (engineering) address the topic.  Might it be possible for someone who is geotechnical engineer/structural engineer/foundation knowledgeable to either stub out an article or add a few words or a section of Foundation (engineering) to describe what one is and the general engineering principles (soil, etc.) of how they work?  I see there are a lot of Google hits but a subject-matter expert could probably best summarize the important ideas for a paragraph in the WP article on foundations.  N2e (talk) 16:03, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles needing work

message: The history section was woefully inadequate. Grabbed some basic info out of a couple textbooks I had laying around and added some context. Also fixed some broken links. Cheers!68.185.166.8 (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I rewrote much of the history section, adding some additional content especially related to more modern history, including critical state soil mechanics. Also introduced the important message that cohesion is not a fundamental soil property.Blkutter (talk) 00:08, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Added onto history section

message: There are quite a number of Wikipedia articles that refer to "monopile foundation" but I can't seem to find any WP article (e.g., monopile, or monopile foundation, as of October 2009, both come up as red links) that describes a monopile foundation.  Might it be possible for someone who is a geotechnical engineer expert to add a few words or a section to either this article (or Foundation (engineering) if that would be better) in order to describe what one is and how they work?  I see there are a lot of Google hits but an expert could probably best summarize the important ideas for a paragraph in the appropriate WP article on underwater geotechnical engineering, or Deep foundation, or Foundation (engineering).  N2e (talk) 21:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a redir page for monopile foundation that will redirect to the page on deep foundations, where at least, pile foundations are discussed.  In my view, the encyclopedic brief description of the monopile foundation is yet to be written in any Wikipedia article.  The three WP articles I mentioned above are all good places where such an explanation might fit.  Cheers, N2e (talk) 03:07, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monopile foundations on near-shore, fixed-bottom wind turbines 

message: I am reworking this page more.  It has a lot of repeated and slightly inconsistent information that is duplicated on the geotechnical investigation and soil mechanics pages. To avoid inconsistencies, we should put details on one of the pages, and just very cursory summaries of the info on the parent page.  I view geotechnical engineering as the "parent" of the soil mechanics and investigation pages. So I am moving detail to the "child" pages and shortening the parent page, but improving the links to the child pages.  This page got dinged in the past for lack of references.  So far I have worked on the geotechnical investigation part, but need to move to reducing redundancy of soil mechanics info. Blkutter (talk) 16:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I started modifying the soil mechanics page before working on consistency and redundancy issues between soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering articles. Until I complete my planned changes to soil mechanics, you can see my draft rewrite of the soil mechanics article on my user page. Blkutter (talk) 22:27, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

text: Main changes to soil mechanics page were completed a few months ago.Blkutter (talk) 07:27, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: rewrite 2010

message: Expansive soils should be covered in more detail. Jim Derby (talk) 02:09, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansive soils 

message: I started looking at ways to improve the section on Marine geotechnical engineering in this article, an area I am currently active in. There is a fair bit of info that could be included in it and the difference between onshore and offshore is significant. So I envisage a separate article (with proper referencing). It's in the works. I'm thinking of using offshore instead of marine. Please let me know if you have comments.--Lusilier (talk) 20:32, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marine geotechnical engineering 

message: I think the entire section Geotechnical engineering#Practicing engineers is inappropriate in this article, and should be erased or moved to a more appropriate article. Geotechnical engineering has universal application but this section is too strongly focussed on the United States. Dolphin (t) 13:12, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: More than a week has passed since I started this discussion thread. There has been no response so I will remove the section. Dolphin (t) 02:59, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The section has been removed. See my diff. Dolphin (t) 11:17, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Practicing engineers