Maxim Millen, winner of the NZGS 2015 Conference People’s Choice Poster Award, has launched Pensolve, reputedly world’s first engineering spreadsheet review software. Maxim summarised the function of Pensolve for Geomechanics News. “We built Pensolve because, as an engineer, I hate reviewing another person’s spreadsheet. What…
Introduction The 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, the 2010 Maule Earthquake in Chile as well as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, has shown that saturated loose sandy ground is extremely prone to liquefaction1-4. In the case of Canterbury earthquakes the scale of devastation caused by…
Abstract Blue Slip is characterised by the unfavourable outcrop of bentonite 3km north of Kekerengu, North Canterbury. Despite repeated landslides impacting the key transport corridor below the landslide remains poorly defined. The aim of this research is characterisation of the landslide using methodology adopted from…
The graph in Fig 1, taken from Kaipara District Council’s May 2000 “Engineering Code of Practice for Land Subdivision and Development” illustrates the way in which soil Runoff Coefficients may vary according to (i) ground cover and (ii) rainfall intensity (mm/h). Fig 1 – Runoff…
Abstract The site subsoil classes used in Tauranga often rely on relatively shallow ground investigation data, and a site subsoil class C (shallow soil) is often used for seismic design outside of areas dominated by Holocene materials. In this study, active- and passive-source surface wave…
Summary Wynyard Quarter is one of New Zealand’s largest urban regeneration projects and has benefited from considerable public investment which is also set to continue. Its public spaces and level of amenity in Auckland is unrivalled. The planned Innovation Precinct consists of 48,000m² of high quality,…
A disused 35m high quarry face bounds the access road and associated carpark for the LDS Church and the Frances Hodgkins retirement village. The access road has been affected by rockfalls from the basalt, breccia and volcanic ash layered cliff face, typically as a result…
