Mechanics of Fluid-Saturated Rocks
Mechanics of Fluid Saturated Rocks presents a current and comprehensive report on this emerging field that bridges the areas of geology and mechanics. It is of direct interest to a wide spectrum of earth scientists and engineers who are conc...
Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing: Pt. 2 Permeability, Shear Strength and Compressibility Tests
This is the second volume of three that provides a comprehensive working manual for the laboratory testing of soils for civil engineering purposes. It is an essential practical handbook for all who are engaged in laboratory testing of soils as wel...
Craig's Soil Mechanics
Craig's Soil Mechanics continues to evolve and remain the definitive text for civil engineering students worldwide. It covers fundamental soil mechanics and its application in applied geotechnical engineering from A to Z and at the right depth for...
Grundbau
Grundbau Teil 2 von Konrad Simmer beinhaltet die Bereiche Baugruben, Grndungen, Verankerungen und Sttzbauwerke, Schutz und Abdichtung von Grundbauwerken gegen Grundwasser sowie die Sicherung von gefhrdeten Bauten. Das Buch wendet sich in erster Li...
Designers' Guide to Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design
Designers Guide to EN 1997-1 presents a detailed guide to the new Geotechnical Design Eurocode. As such it gives an invaluable insight into a code that, for the first time, provides a comprehensive design philosophy that is not only applicable to ...
Solutions for Soil and Structural Systems using Excel and VBA Programs
A practical guide to analyzing soil and structural systems using Excel spreadsheets and VBA macro programs (in open-source code) that are provided on the accompanying CD. This book gives readers the tools to understand the methods such as finite e...
A Particle of Clay
One of the most eminent engineers of the 20th century, both on the national anand international stage, Professor Sir Alec Skempton was truly an influential figure in the discipline of soil mechanics. In the late 1940s he was instrumental in develo...
Soil Liquefaction
A Rigorous and Definitive Guide to Soil LiquefactionSoil liquefaction occurs when soil loses much of its strength or stiffness for a time-usually a few minutes or less-and which may then cause structural failure, financial loss, and even death. It...
Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing
This volume provides a comprehensive working manual for the laboratory testing of soils for civil engineers. It is an essential practical handbook for all who are engaged in laboratory testing of soils as well as being of great value to profession...
Open Pit Mine Planning and Design, Two Volume Set & CD-ROM Pack
Building on the success of its 2006 predecessor, this 3rd edition of Open Pit Mine Planning and Design has been both updated and extended, ensuring that it remains the most complete and authoritative account of modern open pit mining available. Fi...
Hardrock Tunnel Boring Machines
This book covers the fundamentals of tunneling machine technology: drilling, tunneling, waste removal and securing. It treats methods of rock classification for the machinery concerned as well as legal issues, using numerous example projects to re...
Fracture Mechanics
Fracture mechanics studies the development and spreading of cracks in materials. The study uses two techniques including analytical and experimental solid mechanics. The former is used to determine the driving force on a crack and the latter is us...
Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes
Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation. Many areas of unusual geology that contain ore-bearing bodies also support unique ecological communities of plants and anim...
Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing: III Effective Stress Tests
This third volume completes the long-established key handbook for the laboratory testing of soils. The text covers soil testing in terms of effective stress, for which the measurement of pore water pressure is the essential feature. The principle ...
Grouting and Deep Mixing 2012
This Geotechnical Special Publication contains 189 peer-reviewed papers focusing on the science and technology of grouting. Papers describe advances in materials, instrumentation, control and the basic science of grouting and deep mixing, and they...
Introduktion till geotekniken
Boken inleds med en beskrivning av jords uppbyggnad och grundläggande egenskaper. Därefter beskrivs deformations- och brott¿egenskaper. Boken ger vidare förståelse för centrala geotekniska tillämpningar som att beräkna bärförmåga och sättning vid ...
Subsea Engineering Handbook
Designing and building structures that will withstand the unique challenges that exist in Subsea operations is no easy task. As deepwater wells are drilled to greater depths, engineers are confronted with a new set problems such as water depth, we...
Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice
The definitive guide to unsaturated soil from the world's experts on the subject This book builds upon and substantially updates Fredlund and Rahardjo's publication, Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils, the current standard in the field of unsatu...
Logging the Chalk
Chalk has proved to be one of the more difficult rocks to core-log as it breaks up readily during the drilling process leading to core-loss and destructuring, particularly where flints, nodular chalks and/or fractures are present. One of the great...
Karl Terzaghi
Although I knew Terzhaghi well, I did not fully appreciate the personal struggles or the genius of the man until I read Goodman's manuscript - Goodman has caught the essence of the man, says Ralph Peck in the foreword of this first full-l...
Foundations on Rock
This second edition of the successful Foundations on Rock presents an up-to-date practical reference book describing current engineering practice in the investigation, design and construction of foundations on rock. An extra chapter on Tension Fou...
Landforming
The first hands-on instruction guide to landform grading and revegetation ¿ Landform grading provides a cost-effective, attractive, and environmentally compatible way to construct slopes and other landforms that are stable and that blend in with t...
Engineering Geology
Provides a concrete understanding of the basic facts and experiences relating to the different behavior of rock types in engineering construction. Geological fundamentals are developed in a practical context, based on actual cases and experiences ...
Ground Improvement
When finding another location, redesigning a structure, or removing troublesome ground at a project site are not practical options, prevailing ground conditions must be addressed. Improving the ground-modifying its existing physical properties to ...
Granular Geomechanics
Granular Geomechanics provides a comprehensive exploration of soils as granular materials and the manner in which a soil's engineering properties form grain-scale mechanics. The book focuses on granular composition and packing, grain intera...
Rock Mechanics
Rock mechanics is a field of applied science which has become recognised as a coherent engineering discipline within the last two decades. It consists of a body of knowledge of the mechanical properties of rock, various techniques for the analysis...
Rock Dynamics
Rock dynamics has become one of the most important topics in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering. The spectrum of rock dynamics is very wide and it includes the failure of rocks, rock masses and rock engineering structures such as roc...
Foundation Engineering
Covers properties of subsurface materials, types of foundations and methods of construction, selection of foundation type and basis for design, and design of foundations and earth-retaining structures.
Rock Engineering,
Rock Engineering provides a comprehensive explanation of the geological principles and ground investigations involved with the geotechnical design and engineering of underground projects.¿ It offers an internationally applicable, practical guide f...
Rock Slope Engineering
Rock Slope Engineering covers the investigation, design, excavation and remediation of man-made rock cuts and natural slopes, primarily for civil engineering applications. It presents design information on structural geology, shear strength of roc...
Pile Construction Technology
Pile Construction Technology [Bok / Inbunden]
Rock Engineering Design
Given the recent advances in site investigation techniques, computing, access to information and monitoring, plus the current emphasis on safety, accountability and sustainability, this book introduces an up-to-date methodology for the design of a...
Soils and Waves
J. Carlos Santamarina, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in collaboration with Katherine A. Klein, University of Toronto, Canada; Moheb A. Fam, Cairo University, Egypt Soils are unique materials. Analogous to all other particulate materials, th...
Seepage in Soils
Up-to-date coverage of fundamental seepage principles, closed-form solutions, and applications Seepage in Soils combines a broad range of applications with rigorous quantitative skills to give insight into the fundamental principles and mathematic...
Geoteknik
Boken Geoteknik vänder sig i första hand till studenter på de tekniska högskolornas program för väg- och vattenbyggnad och samhällsbyggnad samt på högskolornas byggingenjörsprogram. I denna andra upplaga av boken har framförallt uppgifter adderats...
Dynamics of Marine Sands
The practical engineer looking for an urgent solution to a sediment-related project often finds that the results of the relevant academic research are published in unfamiliar language in publications that are not easily available. Dynamics of mari...
Practical Handbook of Grouting
The first complete handbook for every aspect of grouting technology The Practical Handbook of Grouting offers the most comprehensive, single-source reference covering all facets of grouting technology, including its application for control of wate...