Soil and rock mechanics Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Advanced Soil Mechanics Fifth Edition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Numerical Analysis and Modelling in Geomechanics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Loess and Loess Geohazards in China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Soil Mechanics Basic Concepts and Engineering Applications
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experimental Rock Mechanics 3 Geomechanics Research Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Design and Construction of Pavements and Rail Tracks Geotechnical Aspects and Processed Materials Balkema Proceedings and Monographs in Engineering Water and Earth Sciences
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Taylor & Francis The Transformation of Tajikistan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Elites and Identities in PostSoviet Space
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rock Engineering Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex and the SecondBest City Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato Studies in Classics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex and the SecondBest City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Applied Analyses in Geotechnics
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Taylor & Francis Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Healing in the Relational Paradigm
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geotechnics of Roads Fundamentals
Book SynopsisAt first glance, roads seem like the simplest possible geotechnical structures. However, analysis of these structures runs up against complexities related to the intense stresses experienced by road surfaces, their intense interaction with climate, and the complicated behavior of the materials used in road construction.Modern mechanistic approaches to road design provide the tools capable of developing new technical solutions. However, use of these approaches requires deep understanding of the behavior of constituent materials and their interaction with water and heat which has recently been acquired thanks to advances in geotechnical engineering. The author comprehensively describes and explains these advances and their use in road engineering in the two-volume set Geotechnics of Roads, compiling information that had hitherto only been available in numerous research papers. Geotechnics of Roads: Fundamentals presents stresses and strains in road strucTable of ContentsDistribution of stresses and strains in roads. Unsaturated soil mechanics applied to road materials. Compaction. Embankments. Mechanical behavior of road materials. Climate effects. Non-destructive evaluation and inverse methods. Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rock Mechanics and Engineering Volume 4
Book SynopsisExcavation, Support and Monitoring is the fourth volume of the five-volume set Rock Mechanics and Engineering and contains twenty-three chapters from key experts in the following fields- Excavation Methods;- Support Technology;- Monitoring Technology;- Integrated Engineering Monitoring and Analysis.The five-volume set Comprehensive Rock Engineering, which was published in 1993, has had an important influence on the development of rock mechanics and rock engineering. Significant and extensive advances and achievements in these fields over the last 20 years now justify the publishing of a comparable, new compilation. Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng, with the editorial advice of Professor John A. Hudson. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock engineering and is composed of peTrade Review"There is no doubt that this compendium not only will be of great assistance to all those working in the subject area, whether in research or practice, but it also marks just how far the subject has developed in the 50+ years since 1962 and especially in the 20+ years since the last such survey."John A. Hudson, Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London, UK. President of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) 2007-2011"Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work that, as with the first edition, is deftly edited by Professor Feng, along with the editorial advice of Professor John A. Hudson. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock engineering and is composed of peer-reviewed, dedicated contributions by all the key experts worldwide.Impressively comprehensive, exceptionally well organized and presented, this five volume work clearly sets a new standard as a rock mechanics and engineering compendia that will be the indispensable go-to resource for all engineering professionals and academics involved in rock mechanics and engineering for years to come."Paul T. Vogel in The Midwest Book Review, September 2017Table of ContentsExcavation MethodsSupport TechnologyMonitoring TechnologyIntegrated Engineering Monitoring and Analysis
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil Water and Watersheds
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Cambridge University Press Soil Mechanics A OneDimensional Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book teaches the principles of soil mechanics to undergraduates, along with other properties of engineering materials, to which the students are exposed simultaneously. Using the critical state method of soil mechanics to study the mechanical behavior of soils requires the student to consider density alongside effective stresses, permitting the unification of deformation and strength characteristics. This unification aids the understanding of soil mechanics. This book explores a one-dimensional theme for the presentation of many of the key concepts of soil mechanics - density, stress, stiffness, strength, and fluid flow - and includes a chapter on the analysis of one-dimensional consolidation, which fits nicely with the theme of the book. It also presents some theoretical analyses of soil-structure interaction, which can be analyzed using essentially one-dimensional governing equations. Examples are given at the end of most chapters, and suggestions for laboratory exercises or demTrade Review' … an introductory text that is well suited for the reader with a background in the geological sciences. It is clearly written, well illustrated and full of elementary examples intended for first-year civil engineers at the University of Bristol in England.' Environmental and Engineering GeoscienceTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Stress in soils; 3. Density; 4. Stiffness; 5. Seepage; 6. Changes in stress; 7. Consolidation; 8. Strength; 9. Soil-structure interaction; 10. Envoi, exercises; Numerical answers.
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil Water and Watersheds
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Cambridge University Press Soils
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Cambridge University Press Elements of Crustal Geomechanics
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American Society of Civil Engineers Management Practices for Control of Erosion and
Book SynopsisEstablishes guidelines for controlling accelerated erosion caused by human activities at construction sites. Uncontrolled erosion is costly and accompanied by a host of financial, legal, and environmental problems. This Standard provides tools to ensure that the discharge of sediment does not significantly increase at a construction site compared with preconstruction conditions.
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J Ross Publishing Laboratory Testing of Soils, Rocks and Aggregates
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Soil Mechanics
Book SynopsisKnowledge of the behavior of soil mechanics is essential for forecasting the internal displacements and actions of any construction. This book, although theoretical at first glance, also offers a more practical scope, giving readers adequate tools to plan geotechnical projects correctly.Trade Review"The book is useful and pleasant reading, addressed to all, students of civil engineering, geotechnical engineering and geology, and practicing civil and geotechnical engineers. It's price makes the book suitable for the university, research institutes and public libraries, and of course it can be a really valuable part of any private library." (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2011) Table of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Introduction: Basic Concepts. 1.1 Soils and rocks. 1.2 Engineering properties of soils. 1.3 Soils as an aggregation of particles. 1.4 Interaction with pore water. 1.5 Transmission of the stress state in granular soil. 1.6 Transmission of the stress state in the presence of a fluid. 1.7 From discrete to continuum. 1.8 Stress and strain tensors. 1.9 Bibliography. Chapter 2 Field Equations for a Porous Medium. 2.1 Equilibrium equations. 2.2 Compatibility equations. 2.3 Constitutive laws. 2.4 Geostatic stress state and over-consolidation. 2.5 Continuity equation and Darcy's law. 2.6 Particular cases. 2.6.1 Dry soil. 2.6.2 Saturated soil with still groundwater. 2.6.3 Saturated soil with seepage: stationary conditions. 2.6.4 Saturated soil with seepage: transient conditions. 2.7 Bibliography. Chapter 3 Seepage: Stationary Conditions. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 The finite difference method. 3.3 Flow net. 3.4 Excess pore pressure. 3.5 Instability due to piping. 3.6 Safety factor against piping. 3.7 Anisotropic permeability. 3.8 Transition between soils characterized by different permeability coefficient. 3.9 Free surface problems. 3.10 In situ methods for the permeability coefficient determination. 3.11 Bibliography. Chapter 4 Seepage: Transient Conditions. 4.1 One-dimensional consolidation equation. 4.2 Excess pore pressure isochrones. 4.3 Consolidation settlement. 4.4 Consolidation settlement: approximated solution. 4.5 Consolidation under different initial or boundary conditions. 4.6 Load linearly increasing over time: under consolidation. 4.7 Consolidation under axial sysmmetric conditions. 4.8 Multidimensional consolidation: the Mandel-Cryer effect. 4.9 Oedometer test and measure of cv. 4.10 Influence of the skeleton viscosity. 4.11 Bibliography. Chapter 5 The Constitutive Relationship: Tests and Experimental Results. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Fundamental requirements of testing apparatus. 5.3 Principal testing apparatus. 5.3.1 The "true" triaxial test (TTA): Lame's ellipsoid and Mohr's sickle. 5.3.2 The (standard) triaxial apparatus. 5.3.3 The oedometer. 5.3.4 The biaxial apparatus. 5.3.5 Direct shear box and simple shear apparatus (SSA). 5.3.6 Hollow cylinder. 5.4 The stress path concept. 5.5 Experimental results for isotropic tests on virgin soils. 5.6 Experimental results for radial tests on virgin soils: stress, dilatancy relationship. 5.7 Oedometric tests on virgin soil as a particular case of the radial test: earth pressure coefficient at rest. 5.8 Drained triaxial tests on loose sands: Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. 5.9 Undrained triaxial tests on loose sands: instability line and static liquefaction. 5.10 Drained tests on dense and medium dense sand: dilatancy and critical state. 5.11 Strain localization: shear band formation. 5.12 Undrained tests on dense and medium dense sands: phase transformation line. 5.13 Sand behavior in tests in which the three principal stresses are independently controled: failure in the deviatoric plane. 5.14 Normally consolidated and over-consolidated clays: oedometric tests with loading unloading cycles--extension failure. 5.15 Drained and undrained triaxial tests on normally consolidated clays: normalization of the mechanical behavior. 5.16 Over-consolidated clays. 5.17 The critical state. Plasticity index. 5.18 Natural soils: apparent over-consolidation--yielding surface. 5.19 Soil behavior under cyclic loading: cyclic mobility and strength degradation. 5.20 Bibliography. Chapter 6 The Constitutive Relationship: Mathematical Modeling of the Experimental behavior. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Nonliner elasticity. 6.3 Perfect elastic-plasticity. 6.4 Yielding of metals. 6.5 Taylor and Quinney experiments: the normality postulate. 6.6 Generalized variables of stress and strain. 6.7 Plastic strains for a material behaving as described by the Mohr-Coulomb criterion. 6.8 Drucker-Prager and Matsuoka-Nakai failure Criteria. 6.9 Dilatancy: non-associated flow rule. 6.10 Formulation of an elastic-perfectly plastic law. 6.11 Cam clay model. 6.12 Reformulation of the Cam clay model as an elastic-plastic hardening model. 6.13 Comparison between experimental behavior and mathematical modeling for normally consolidated clays. 6.14 Lightly over-Consolidated clays. 6.15 Heavily over-consolidated clays. 6.16 Subsequent developments and applications. 6.17 Non-associated flow rule: the Nova-Wood model. 6.18 Sinfonietta classica: a model for soils and soft rocks. 6.19 Models for soils subjected to cyclic loading. 6.20 Conceptual use of constitutive soil behavior models. 6.20.1 Oedometric test. 6.20.2 Unconfined undrained (UU) test. 6.20.3 Shear modulus "anisotropy." 6.21 Bibliography. Chapter 7 Numerical solution to Boundary Value Problems. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 The finite element method for plane strain problems. 7.3 Earth pressures on retaining structures. 7.4 Settlements and bearing capacity of shallow foundations. 7.5 Numerical solution of boundary value problems for fully saturated soil. 7.6 Undrained conditions: short-term bearing capacity of a footing. 7.7 Short-and long-term stability of an excavation. 7.8 Bibliography. Postscript. Index.
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