PHOENIX ENGINEERING LTD
Phoenix Engineering Ltd (PEL) is a privately owned family business registered in British Columbia, and founded in 1981.
The Phoenix portion of this website deals with proprietary hardware which we have designed and built over the years for use by Ground Improvement (GI) contractors.
The Hardware section lists the tools and procedures we developed in order to povide innovative and practical solutions for the following tasks:
Building underwater rigid sand columns
Improving tailings dam stability
Groundwater cleanup
Liquefaction prevention
The Hodge menu items links to some of the owner and founder's (William E Hodge) working engineering experiences in the field. Lessons learned out in the real (non-academic) world eventually lead to a coherent geotechnical understanding of how soils actually do behave under strain; and this is not what we are/were taught.
The fact is that the only way to prevent excessive soil-structure deformation, such as liquefaction, is to increase the ground's density (reduce its void ratio) beforehand. And this is what our hardware is designed to do.
PEL has been authorized to advertize those parts of WE Hodge's Intellectual Property for sale to GI contractors, as detailed in the following document:
KEY TECHNICAL ESSAYS
The following technical essays, written by the founder of PEL, are accessible via links below:
Interpretation of Piezometric Traces by h-Method
Slope Stability Assessment by h-Method
Compacted Earthfill is a 3-phase Material
We recommend these articles to geotechnical engineers because they contain fundamental Soil Mechanics and Soil Physics data and field interpretations, essential to good and sensible design and construction practice, which are not available elsewhere.