Oh, the joys/horrors of public speaking! Love it or hate it, it really should be part of your professional life. Even people who are/seem to be very[…]
Sorry to trick you with the photo. It’s a picture of blended whiskey. I’m here to chat about blended tailings and waster rock. I just liked the[…]
Mohr’s circle is a two-dimensional graphical representation of the transformation law for the Cauchy stress tensor. That’s why I never understood what it was when I was[…]
For earth dams, the most common requirement for static, long-term, steady-state slope stability is the 1.5 factor of safety. Who says? Where did that come from? Let’s[…]
First of all, all engineers should travel for work for site reconnaissances, site investigations, construction, and so on. I’ve traveled a fair bit throughout my career. Early[…]
Some things are outliers. There is a really good book by Malcolm Gladwell with the same title. Some outliers need special attention. I once worked on a[…]
The use and interpretation of piezometers is of critical importance to the monitoring and understanding of tailings facilities. This is because pore pressure has a direct impact[…]
Do you know why managers yell and demand results? Besides the fact that they are huge a-holes? Most likely it’s because they don’t know how to do[…]