John S. Horvath, Ph.D., P.E. Consulting Engineer - Copyright 2008-2010 by John S. Horvath. All rights reserved. - This page was last revised on 11 March 2010.
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March 2010...A technical paper containing an outline of key results from the Interim (Phase I) report for the National
Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
Project No. 24-11(02) titled "Geofoam Applications in Slope Stability Projects"
that was issued on 14 January 2009 has been accepted for publication in the Transportation Research Board's
(TRB's) premier
scholarly journal, the
Transportation Research Record. Dr. Horvath is a co-Principal Investigator on this project, which is being
managed out of the University of Memphis, as well as a co-author of this paper.
A pre-publication copy of this paper can be
downloaded from the
publications page of this website. This paper was previously presented at the TRB's 89th Annual Meeting
that was held in January 2010
in Washington, DC. A preprint copy was available in the Annual Meeting proceedings as well on the
publications page of this website.


August 2009...Dr. Horvath's landmark monograph, "Geofoam Geosynthetic", is now officially out of print. This is still the only
English-language publication to cover all aspects of geofoams. At the present time there are no plans for either a reprinting or
second edition.