... lecture presented by the author to the Geotechnical Society Ireland on 6 April 2022. It describes how geotechnical engineering in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe has advanced with Eurocode 7 during the past 40 years. The situation regarding geotechnical engineering and the political context prior to 1981...

... in Mineralogy Past-president Vadim Kovrugin, National Graduate School of Engineering of Caen, France (web information) Michael Plötze, Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, ETH, Switzerland Kevin Murphy, Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland, UK Ewa S aby, Institute of Geological Sciences...

... as the inaugural lecture in a series of bi-annual invited lectures to the Geotechnical Society of Ireland that was named after the very distinguished Irish geotechnical engineer, Professor Eamon Hanrahan. It was a great honour to have been invited to give the First Hanrahan Lecture in the programme. Professor...

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... who deserve thanks and are too numerous to mention here. D. Gill (AGL Consulting and current Chair of the Geotechnical Society of Ireland (GSI)) and F. Buggy (immediate past chair of the GSI and instigator of the Hanrahan Memorial Prize) have been very supportive and helpful; in particular...

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... , Guidance notes for the planning and execution of geophysical and geotechnical ground investigations for offshore renewable energy developments : The Society for Underwater Technology . Boaga J. Cassiani G. Strobbia C. L. Vignoli G. , 2013 , Mode misidentification in Rayleigh waves...

... . Börgesson , L. Shear strength of inorganic silty soils . In: Proceedings of the 10th ICSMFE, Stockholm . 1 1981 . 567 – 572 Swedish Geotechnical Society , Stockholm . Brooker , E.W. , Ireland , H.O. , Earth pressures at rest related to stress history . Canadian Geotechnical...

... Lyon1, France) Alessandro Pavese (Department of Earth Science, University of Turin, Italy) Treasurer Helen E. King (Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Financial Officer Russell Rajendra (Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, UK) Public Information Officers...

... There are few documented case studies that have explored the nature of the hydrogeology of drumlin swarms in Northern Ireland, fewer still that have directly illustrated the importance of these hydrogeological systems to the geotechnical performance of the civil infrastructure, such as road and rail cuttings...

... characterisation in peat and organic soils . In : Rahardjo , P.P. & Lunne , T. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on in situ Measurement of Soil Properties and Case Histories, Bali, Indonesia . Malaysian Geotechnical Society , 49 – 59 . Farrell , E.R. & Hebib , S...

...Alan P. Dykes * (e-mail: [email protected] ) © 2009 Geological Society of London 2009 A.P. Dykes writes: Boylan et al. (2008) present a comprehensive overview of peat instability in Ireland, including a historical perspective and a review of the difficulties of peat...

... from knowledge gained from infrastructural developments on peat carried out in the past. In Ireland, the construction of roads across peatlands provided some of the earliest data relating to the geotechnical properties of peat ( Hanrahan 1952 , 1954 ). Later, knowledge gained from canal and embankment...

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... Meeting of our Society will be convened jointly with the quadrennial International Clay Conference (ICC) of the Association Internationale pour l Etude des Argiles (AIPEA), which will take place July 13 18 in Dublin, Ireland. This will be the final ICC, as AIPEA will hereafter combine the ICC...

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... and Hydrogeology , 44 , 5 – 16 . Dykes A.P. Boylan N. Jennings P. Long M. 2009 . Discussion of ‘Peat slope failure in Ireland’ by Boylan et al . Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology , 42 , 123 – 125 . © 2011 The Geological Society of London...