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REPRESENTATIVt PROJECTS BY RALPH ISAACS EXPERT WITNESS Expert witness on several cases including: ' construclion problems with a large multi-unit complex in Montlake Terrace, WA ' causes of a landslide in the City of Kent, WA ' a crane failure in [verett, WA ' landslide and settlement investigations, Lake Forest Park, WA FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS Representative forensic investigations include: ` a massive landslide in St. Jean Vianney, Quebec which took thirty-one (31) lives. ' a sewer line se[tlement failure, Issaquah, WA ' settlement distress in hostel buildings on top of Pike's Peak, Colorado ' constructfon problems with excavation of control structure for the Churchill Falls Hydro-Electric Project, Labrador ' landslide investigation and remedial design, Issaquah, WA GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING PROJECTS NoRhwest Alaskan Pipeline As a manager of engineering for a large arctic pipeline project, was required to develop a solution to the critical design problem of the pipeline: the quantitative prediction of frost heave caused by the pipeline and the pipe strain associated with this heave. To solve this problem, defined the state-of-the-art laboratory and field research required as well as the computer programs that had to be developed. Helped to develop the budget and obtain funding for the program, built a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and guided this team to the desired solution of the problem. This major research project spanned a four-year testing program and required a total budget of 550 million: it involved designing a new laboratory frost heave test, designing and super��ising the installation of full-scale testing facilities in Alaska, and defining and directing the development of the computer programs required to implement the frost heave design criteria. The uniaue design criteria and the methodology for the design were reviewed in depth and approved by an advisory committee of the Federal Government consisting of American and Canadian experts in northern engineering. Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Overel! responsibility for reviewing and determining the adequacy of geoscience and northern engineering criteria developed for the design of the above- and below-ground segments of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, pump stations and terminal. Assisted in establishing crileria for the pipeline design and in their application to design. Consultant to the field staff on unusual problems encountered in construction.