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Posted on July 23rd, 2010
NZGS Seismic Design Guidelines
The NZGS is pleased to announce the publication of the “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Practice ” guideline. This 1st Module is a guideline for the identification, assessment and mitigation of liquefaction hazards.
The technical material supporting this document contains clear statements for making assessments, whilst plainly differentiating between methods for different soils. The material is presented in [...]
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11th IAEG Congress, Geologically Active
Workshop of the ISSMGE TC40 – Failures, Disputes, Causes and Solutions in Geotechnics
ISRM International Symposium 2010 and the 6th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium
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The Management Secretary, NZ Geotechnical Society Inc., IPENZ, PO Box 12-241, Wellington
