Congratulations to the editors of the new publication “Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design” John Read and Peter Stacey. They have done a first class job of bringing together an international team to provide a state of art reference document for rock slope design. This is an essential publication for any engineer involved with [...]
It is widely acknowledged that good geotechnical engineering requires a combination of scientific knowledge and the art of applying engineering judgement which one gains primarily from experience based on meaningful case histories. However, the balance between the art and the science of geotechnical engineering has been upset in the last twenty years by the appearance [...]