AGE
(A Geotechnical Engineer)
Registered Engineering Consultant Service
 
 
~ World
Wide ~
 
Industries Served
Mining - Petroleum - Environmental
 
Services Offered
Production, Drilling, Sampling, Testing, Analysis, Custom Design & Fabrication
 
 
AGE owns & operates Humboldt nuclear density measuring Instruments.  
 
 
Overview
 
A Geotechnical Engineer is a client oriented Geotechnical specialty coalition. AGE is committed to quality design and quality assurance with a timely customer response. AGE is positioned to respond quickly in support of your unique Geotechnical challenge from our location in Western Arizona. A permanant laboratory and field lab can mount sustained efforts to provide supporting data for environmental, earth materials, and earth structural design projects.

 
 
Benchmark Procedures
 
 

 AGE qualified scientists have formulated numerous benchmark procedures and specialty equipment designs, from technology development starting in the late sixties continuing through the present. The following is a partial list of proprietary technology:

1. Wire line Sampling tools for above and below the water table.
2. Retrieval techniques for screw-in casing.
3. Drill hole stabilization in dry sands using air mist additives.
4. Swift, time saving techniques employing field fluorescent analysis utilized on petroleum based products found in soils and liquid.
5. Non destructive testing methods to obtain densities in rock and rocky soil.
6. Instrumental procedures with tri-axial seismic sensitive strain-stressed transducers used specifically on rock roadway cuts and open pit mine slope monitoring in Arizona, California, and Nevada.

 
 
Equipment Available
AGE currently utilizes state-of-the-art field and laboratory equipment for soils, design, testing, and sampling. We have adapting a data collection system for legal defense using instrumentation employing EG&G GEOMETRICS Geophysical equipment.

If your project is unique, custom tools can be designed and fabricated in our thirty-five hundred square foot electronics, machine, and equipment facility. This fabrication facility has been used to design & construct drilling equipment, skid mounted rigs, and specialty trucks & trailers. AGE has also served as the final assembly location for solution tanks, rock bins, cyclones, hydro-cones, pond liners, PVC stripper tanks, and Pachuca agitators.

 
 
AGE Experience
 
Construction Material Testing, Processing, Sampling, Special applications, Shielding, Lightweight coatings, Placing, and Transporting.   Soil Compaction, Aeration, Blending, Wetting, Biological cleaning, Natural decontamination, Mining, and Special treatment.
 
Soft Rock Drilling, Blasting, Fluid flow, Compressibility, Cohesion, Strain, Density, Seismisity, Electrical properties, ans Shear.
 
Hard Rock Blasting, Drilling, Stress, Strain, Cohesion, Seismisity, Banding, Plastic flow, Pressure of fluids, Pressure release or rock burst, Alteration products,
and both regional and local Tectonics.
 
Asphalt Concrete Design, Testing, Quality control, Fluid adjustment and applications, Sorting, Transporting, Priming, Placing, Compacting, Finishing, Rejuvenating, Reclamation, Rubberizimg, and Caulking.

Portland Cement Concrete Design, Mixing, Placing, Transporting, Surfacing, Finishing, Additives, Curing, Steaming and Cooling, Pumping, Blowing, Stressing and Pre stressing, Dry packing, Forming, Foaming, Icing, Coating, Sawing, Cracking, Fire retarding, High density, Lightweight, Coloring, Cleaning, and Flyashing.

Structural Petrology Macro and Micro Crystallography, Structural orientation, Alteration, Graphic computer analysis, Instrumentation, and Testing.

Foundation Design, Boring, Piling design, Bearing values, Standard penetration, Lateral and normal pressures, Effective pressures, Raft, Spread footing, Seismic and wind loading, Live and dead load, and Slab on grade.

Enviro-Hazard Audits Site audits for loan procurement, Property sales, Underground tank testing and leak detection, Surface and ground water hydrology, and Hazardous Materials detection.

Enviro-hazard Mitigation Leaky fuel tank cleanup, Bio-remediation, and Site specific solutions. Enviro-hazard projects are directed towards an economic approach, which includes a fourth dimensional philosophy when developing cleanup technology.
 
 
What is a Geotechnical Engineer?
 

A Geotechnical Engineer relates the earth sciences and geology seismology to applied engineering. Geotechnical Engineers often become associated with the foundations for civil engineering construction undertakings such as highways, dams, canal & waterfront projects, and open pit & underground mining. Other major areas of involvement include:

1. Hydrocarbon Remediation by pumping or mining as oil, tar sand, or coal.
2. Hazardous Waste Management, including Bioremediation.
3. Groundwater and Water Resources Engineering.  

Geotechnical Engineering involves the processing, construction and excavation of non-renewable resources. Through education, training, & experience a Geotechnical Engineer is obligated to be a true Economic Conservationist. The wise use of non-renewable resources requires careful attention to a total development schedule. Rocks and minerals are unlike other resources, such as timber, where replanting will bring forth lumber with in a few score years. Rock and mineral replacement requires considerably longer.
  

 
 
       Fee Schedule
    
 
James R. Youell: Registered Geologist, Registered Engineer
P.O. Bin 338, Wenden, AZ 85357-0338
E-mail jyouell@desertlink.net
Tel 001 520 859 3491 Fax 001 520 859 3958
 
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