With Geotechnology Consultant in Sydney Build on Stronger Grounds

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With Geotechnology Consultant in Sydney Build
on Stronger Grounds
Level 25 88 Phillip Street Sydney NSW 2000 (02)
8324 1412 www.bhmgeo.com.au
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One of the most popular trends going around the
world is the increasing use of geotechnical
engineering. Also due to Bentley Systems
acquisition of plaxis the concept is gaining more
relevance. Here in this blog, we provide you all
the information you may need to know about
geotechnical engineering. What is G eotechnical
Engineering? The process of modeling soil and
rock behaviors by combining geology and physics
is known as Geotechnical engineering. It is a
part of civil engineering only. If we look at
the scientific perspective then it involves
defining the soils strength and deformation
properties. It takes care of the effect of water
on the soil as well as different aspects of a
construction site regardless of the source of
water. It involves the process of investigating
the subsurface condition by using the principles
of solid and rock mechanics.
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Some more processes that geotechnical engineering
involves are determining the relevant
physical/mechanical and chemical properties of
these materials, assess risks posed by site
conditions, design earthworks and structure
foundations, monitor site conditions. The core
and the most important part of geotechnical
engineering is a geotechnical engineer. As we
know that all the buildings that we construct
lie on the surface or subsurface only so it is
important to know what process is going on
inside the soil and this is done by a
geotechnical engineer. This process is also
termed to be as geotechnical site
investigation. Need of Geotechnical
Engineering The main reason for using
geotechnical engineering is that it eliminates
the risk of a collapse.
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For e.g. If a building is constructed close to
any water body it will eventually sink in water
as it is built on sediments only instead of sand,
rocks, etc. By using the concept of geotechnical
engineering one can prevent such calamity by
investigating and making calculations of the
soil beforehand. This geotechnical site
investigation tells us whether soil consists of
rocks, sand, heap or anything else. And when you
know the content of the soil you can decide
whether to construct or not. If we do not use
this method then sometimes the building may seem
to be completely fine but mostly it will
collapse only. Problems with traditional
methods The first step towards constructing a
building is that an engineer takes a look at the
soil and decides whether he can construct a
building on that soil or not. This process is
known as basement experience, however, isnt
accurate as most of the time the engineer is
proven wrong.
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The next step is to find whether the building can
be constructed or not by using some conventional
methods. But in this case, too the real
knowledge of site and soil is not taken into
consideration. So this method also rides on some
high safety factors only. Many examples can be
given for this like sometimes a building has
fallen over, due to some natural calamity like
an earthquake. However, if that building was
made by using geotechnical concepts and after
performing geotechnical site investigations the
disaster would not have occurred. Conclusion We
can say that the invention of geotechnical
engineering is a massive breakthrough in the
construction domain as due to this we can
prevent lots of buildings from collapsing. After
performing a geotechnical site investigation by
hiring t he best geotechnical consultants in
Sydney and then using some part of the land which
may be thought was useless but this method
provides support to use that land for
construction purposes.
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