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April 2021- TAILENG is part of the organizing committee for the 7th International Conference on Tailings Management, Tailings 2021, to be held on September 1-3, 2021. See more details here
March 2021- TAILENG successfully offered its first course for the calendar year 2021 on the fundamentals of tailings engineering. The course had more than 70 participants, which included mine operators, consultants, and students.
January 2021- TAILENG published two articles in the SME Mining Engineering magazine discussing the role of tailings engineers, read the articles here:
https://me.smenet.org/abstract.cfm?preview=1&articleID=10074&page=26
https://me.smenet.org/abstract.cfm?preview=1&articleID=10075&page=28
July 2020- TAILENG is founded as a new research center that will study mine tailings and industrial waste. See details here:
June 2021 – Congratulations to Mr. Chenying Liu for his paper on “Machine learning-based models for estimating seismically-induced slope displacements”. See details in: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.106795
April 2021 – Congratulations to Mr. Chenying Liu for his paper on “Ground‐Motion Intensity Measure Correlations on Interface and Intraslab Subduction Zone Earthquakes Using the NGA‐Sub Database.” See details in: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200297
January 2021 – Congratulations to Mr. Chenying Liu for his paper on “New Scenario-based cumulative absolute velocity models for shallow crustal tectonic settings.” See details in: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190321
December 2020 – Congratulations to Mr. Luis Vergaray for participating in the paper: “Collapse fragility function development using conditional scenario spectra: application to a multi-story reinforced concrete shear wall.” To be part of the 17th WCEE conference proceedings.
December 2020 – Congratulations to Mr. Luis Vergaray for participating in the paper: “Effect of selection and scaling ground motions on the collapse response of the multi-story reinforced concrete special shear wall.” To be part of the 17th WCEE conference proceedings.
November 2020 – Congratulations to Mr. Chenying Liu for his paper on “New developments for the performance-based assessment of seismically-induced slope displacements.” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2020.105786
November 2020 – Congratulations to Mr. Cody Arnold for participating in the paper: “TAILENG mine tailings database.” TMW 2020 conference, Keystone, Colorado.
December 2020 – Mr. Luis Vergaray successfully passed the PhD comprehensive written exam at the Geosystems department and became a Ph.D candidate, congratulations Luis!
May 2020- Mr. Chenying Liu successfully passed the PhD comprehensive written exam at the Geosystems department and became a Ph.D candidate, congratulations Chenying!
December 2018 – Dr. Macedo’s been honored as the “editor’s choice” in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2018). More information here
August 2018- Dr. Macedo’s new face of CEE School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. https://ce.gatech.edu/news/new-faces-macedo-driven-understand-geotechnical-risks-and-make-cities-more-resilient
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