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May Meeting Notice |
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Date: |
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 |
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Topic: |
Full Scale London Load Test |
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Rose Vine Hall (downstairs at Grumpy's Bar & Grill) |
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Time:
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6:00 pm |
Social Hour sponsored by Sponsored by Soil Engineering and Testing, Inc. |
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7:00 pm |
Dinner: Salad, Rolls Coffee/Soda and a choice of: |
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10-ounce Top Sirloin – Char-grilled and topped with bleu cheese garlic butter. Served with white cheddar mashed potatoes and a sautéed vegetable medley. $35.00* |
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Stuffed Pork Chops – Two char-grilled pork chops stuffed with golden raisins, cornbread and apples. $35.00* |
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Feta Cheese and Sun-dried Tomato Stuffed Walleye – served over white cheddar mashed potatoes with a drizzle of lemon thyme butter sauce. $35.00* |
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Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo – Fettuccine noodles, snow pea pods, and mushrooms tossed in an Alfredo cream sauce and topped with a grilled chicken breast and parmesan cheese. $30.00* |
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Cobb Salad – Iceberg topped with turkey, ham, bacon, hard cooked eggs, avocado, diced tomoatoes, bleu cheese crumbles, and black olives with choice of dressing (Ranch, FF Ranch, Bleu Cheese, French, FF French, Italian, FF Italian, Balsamic Vinaigrette) $25.00* |
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8:00 pm |
Presentation — Neil Schwanz, PE, US Army Corps of Engineers |
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Cost: |
* Paid 2012-2013 MGS Members receive a $5 meeting discount on the meal costs listed above. The cost to Full-time students is $5, payable to MGS at the door. |
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Reservations: |
PDF Announcement (121 kb) | |||
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(One professional development hour toward continuing education
requirements for Professional Engineers is available.) |
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Full Scale London Load Test
Following the Hurricane Katrina loaded floodwall failures in New Orleans significant effort was made to better understand I-wall performance. This included performing a nearly $4M full scale load test of an I-wall section along the London Avenue Canal. A sheet pile cofferdam was constructed to isolate and load five critical wall monoliths (150 ft) while real time data was collected and used to aid decisions during testing. Instrumentation included survey prisms with robotic total station, inclinometers, tilt meters, piezometers, pressure cells and crack meters. Performance predictions were made prior to testing and post test models were calibrated to support additional project evaluation and design. The London Load Test information was also used to support development of the Corps of Engineers Technical Letter (ETL) 1110-2-575 for Evaluation of I-walls in New Orleans and around the Nation. This presentation will discuss the load test background, instrumentation and data collection and results, as well as pre- and post-test analyses, what was learned and how this was used to develop criteria. |
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Meetings: 2012 - 2013
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2012 - 2013 |
Description or Topic |
Location |
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 |
Prediction of Sand Aging Effects |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
Slurry Stabilized Drilled Shafts: A Case Study |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
Geotechnical Challenges of the CapEx 2020 Project |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 |
10 Minutes of Chaos: The Sudbury Impact Layer in the Lake Superior Region |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
Carving Crazy Horse: Art & Engineering of Blasting
Massive Rock Monuments |
Continuing Education Center, U of MN |
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
The Bender’s Park Landslide |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
Trout Brook Storm Sewer Realignment |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013 |
Full Scale London Load Test |
Rose Vine Hall, Roseville, MN |
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