Geotechnical Engineering Cyberinfrastructure (GTCI)

This paper presents a cyberinfrastructure (i.e., web-based platform) for geotechnical engineering for storing, computing, and managing capabilities of project data, analyses, and designs. This geotechnical engineering cyberinfrastructure (GTCI) hosts basic project data, analysis packages, and design results. GTCI consists of (1) a web portal enclosing the details of computation and data management, thereby minimizing the required learning effort, (2) a flexible framework that allows easy extension by integrating geotechnical analysis suites for analysis and visualization; this means users can add new tools/scripts as needed overtime, and (3) a common repository to manage data and results through a database that maintains metadata. Furthermore, in GTCI, all design data, models, and results live online, offering the ability to submit, review, exchange, and edit designs. GTCI, therefore, overcomes the status quo of relying on offline segregated data, analyses, and designs. Thus, GTCI increases the security, safety, and lifetime of critical project information.