To adapt the sensors for use in soil, the engineers placed a polyvinylidene fluoride layer over them. The film has ultra-small holes — on the nano level — that let nitrates enter, but not dirt.

Growing up in Haiti, Northwestern Engineering’s Ludmilla Aristilde looked critically at the land and thought about how soil sustains plants. This came naturally; her father was both an educator and ...

and how engineers design facilities to withstand earthquakes, will be addressed. In particular, the course will consider three topics of current professional and research interest: probabilistic ...

The application of soil mechanics to the design and analysis of foundations and soil structures. Topics include: soil origin and deposition, subsurface exploration, bearing capacity and settlement ...

This type of discussion was the goal: farmers and water managers providing real-world context to the data of researchers and scientists.

Soils can rarely be described as ideally elastic or perfectly plastic and yet simple elastic and plastic models form the basis for the most traditional geotechnical engineering calculations. With the ...