🔬 GTI Doctor

Ask anything about geotechnical instrumentation — sensors, installation procedures, monitoring programs, dam / slope / tunnel applications.

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Inclinometers & Tiltmeters

Slope stability, tunnel linings, retaining walls — selection, installation, data interpretation, common errors.

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Piezometers

Vibrating-wire, standpipe, multi-level — pore pressure monitoring for dams, dewatering, groundwater studies.

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Extensometers & Settlement

Borehole rod, magnetic, tape — for embankments, deep excavations, pile load tests, soft-soil consolidation.

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Load & Stress

Load cells, strain gauges, stressmeters — foundations, rock bolts, structural bridge testing, tiebacks.

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RST Instruments (Orica)

RSTAR Affinity wireless mesh — piezometers, MEMS arrays, data loggers, satellite / cellular backhaul.

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Reference Manuals

Dunnicliff · FHWA · Das · soil mechanics · hydrology — installation procedures and field checklists at your fingertips.

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I answer geotechnical-instrumentation questions using a knowledge base of 18 reference manuals covering slope stability, dams, tunnels, foundations, soil mechanics, hydrology, and the RST Instruments product portfolio. Click a suggestion below or type your own question.

📚 Indexed reference manuals (18 PDFs)

The GTI Doctor corpus includes:

Dunnicliff — Geotechnical Instrumentation for Monitoring Field Performance (the definitive guide)
FHWA — Geotechnical Instrumentation Reference Manual (highway / slope / embankment monitoring)
Das — Principles of Foundation Engineering + Principles of Geotechnical Engineering (7th editions)
Advanced Geotechnical Analyses — Benerjee & Butterfield
Soil mechanics + hydrology + GATE study guides
Field Methods for Geologists and Hydrologists + Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining
Mining glossary + tailings reinforcement reference
Plus large textbooks on geotechnical engineering and geological methods

Total: 5,032 text chunks extracted via pymupdf, embedded with @cf/baai/bge-m3, and upserted to Cloudflare Vectorize.