Author: Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering

For thousands of years, the underground has provided humans refuge, useful resources, physical support for surface structures, and a place for spir...

Steel is a common component of U.S. infrastructure, but that steel can corrode when buried in soil, rock, or fill. Steel corrosion is estimated to ...

Fractured rock is the host or foundation for innumerable engineered structures related to energy, water, waste, and transportation. Characterizing,...

Although advances in engineering can reduce the risk of dam and levee failure, some failures will still occur. Such events cause impacts on social ...

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington State radically changed the physical and socio-economic landscapes of the region. The...

In the past several years, some energy technologies that inject or extract fluid from the Earth, such as oil and gas development and geothermal ene...