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    A tieback is a structural element installed in soil or rock to transfer applied tensile load into the ground. Typically in the form of a horizontal wire...
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  • Look up tieback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tieback may refer to: Tieback (geotechnical), a method of supporting retaining walls Tieback (subsea)...
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    stabilization Grout curtain Retaining wall Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback (geotechnical) Trench shoring Caisson Dam Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically...
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    petroleum), or gases (such as natural gas). It may also be part of a geotechnical investigation, environmental site assessment, mineral exploration, temperature...
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    Potential, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental...
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    thixotropic, with their behavior of great importance in structural and geotechnical engineering. Landslides, such as those common in the cliffs around Lyme...
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    A wale is also a horizontal member of a geotechnical tieback wall, which transmits the force from the tieback to the beams.[citation needed][clarification...
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  • with regard to the properties of tailings), and in soil science. In geotechnical engineering, it is considered one of the state variables of soils and...
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    the same, despite a degree of overlap in their respective definitions. Geotechnical engineers distinguish between silts and clays based on the plasticity...
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    glacial action: a new approach to their nature, geology, distribution and geotechnical properties". Engineering Geology. 7 (2): 115–133. Bibcode:1973EngGe....
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    {\displaystyle u'={\frac {m_{w}}{m_{\text{wet}}}}} However, woodworking, geotechnics and soil science require the gravimetric moisture content to be expressed...
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    excavating ancient ruins or to dig into strata of sedimented material. In geotechnical engineering, trenches serve for locating faults and investigating deep...
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    California landslides Deformation monitoring Earthquake engineering Geotechnical engineering Huayco Landslide dam Natural disaster Railway slide fence...
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  • addition to issues related to rockfall trajectory control and classical geotechnical issues (e.g. external stability), rockfall protection embankments are...
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    Slurry wall (category Geotechnical shoring structures)
    and Geotechnics. 108: 75–87. doi:10.1016/j.compgeo.2018.12.019. "(Ab)Dicht(ungs)(schlitz)wand f", Wörterbuch GeoTechnik/Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering...
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  • compressibility and permeability behaviour of sand-bentonite mixes, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 271–282 Hydraulic conductivity calculator...
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  • Permeability (Earth sciences) (category In situ geotechnical investigations)
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    Well (category In situ geotechnical investigations)
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    Pore structure (category In situ geotechnical investigations)
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  • EM surveys are also used in unexploded ordnance, archaeological, and geotechnical investigations. Regional EM surveys are conducted via airborne methods...
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  • Rotary-pressure sounding (category In situ geotechnical investigations)
    developed by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) in 1967. "Geotechnical Methods | Norges Geologiske...
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    are piles utilised only in tension applications like restraining wall tiebacks or vertical ground anchors made to resist overturning forces. Piles are...
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