This book offers a comprehensive overview of how the Internet of Things is reshaping the Management of Soil, Geotechnical Engineering, and Environmental Observations. It equips the reader with the necessary tools to apply IoT solutions to farming pr...Lasīt vairāk
Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures deals with the occurrence, prediction and control of subsidence issues encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Mar-2025, Izdevniecība: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781003603863)
Explores sustainable means of soil improvement through the promising use of nano-biochar and nanoparticles for improving soil quality, as well as for reducing waste. Discusses how nano-biochar can improve soil quality and sustainability and explores...Lasīt vairāk
This delves into the crucial aspects of grouted soil and rock anchors, covering anchor design, construction, testing, durability, and maintenance, plus the fundamental characteristics of ground and groundwater aggressivity. It adheres to Eurocode 7...Lasīt vairāk
This introduces the whole engineering process of designing and constructing deep excavations in rock, including caverns, tunnels, shafts, and pits. The process is covered from initial site planning to closure of contracts and resolution of disputes,...Lasīt vairāk
The book introduces the basic laboratory equipment and procedures used in core analysis of reservoir rock and the theoretical aspects of the parameters. It offers detailed instructions on experimental execution for persons with limited to no experie...Lasīt vairāk
The focus of this book is on various dimensions of landslide hazard assessment including terminologies used in landslide hazard analysis, landslide inventory systems used globally and their relevance in generating complete and reliable landslide dat...Lasīt vairāk
This textbook is a modern look at the key concepts of sedimentology and stratigraphy, and it is written for the undergraduate level. With lavish and abundant illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations, the book focuses on the concepts require...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first of two volumes forming a definitive guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. This volume offers a deep analysis of site data attributes b...Lasīt vairāk
This is the second of a definitive guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering to enhance decision-making in geotechnical practice using data-driven methods. This volume presents databases on the performance of shallow, spudcan, and deep...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses the advancements in rock blasting techniques for mining and civil construction rock excavation projects including need for and importance of rock blasting, related theories, challenges in rock blasting operation, and rock blastin...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the need for identifying and addressing deficiencies in soil, water, and plants. Techniques to evaluate soil fertility constraints based on soil chemical extraction and analysis of the plants that grow on such soils are discussed...Lasīt vairāk
This new edition covers recent suction history on small strain stiffness, cyclic thermal effects on soil behaviour, and wall deflection in deep excavations; along with topics not in other books, case studies including the South-to-North Water Transf...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock...Lasīt vairāk
The book focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works. Explosives and their actions are explained in terms of basics, principles, and related chemistry....Lasīt vairāk
Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Mechanics and Engineering represents a highly prestigious, multi-volume work edited by Professor Xia-Ting Feng. This new compilation offers an extremely wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in rock mechanics and rock...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces the way projects are managed, designed, and constructed, and how the engineering geologist can contribute to cost-effective and safe project achievement. Now with a new chapter on environmental issues covering hydrogeology, clim...Lasīt vairāk
This reference guide from an international team of experts shows how uncertainty quantification and numerical modeling can complement each other to enhance decision making in geotechnical practice, filling a critical gap in guiding practitioners to...Lasīt vairāk
This covers seismic performance, deformation and failure mechanisms, good aseismic design, and effective damage assessment and restoration. It gives analytical solutions for longitudinal and transversal seismic deformation, along with performance-ba...Lasīt vairāk
This covers the application of risk management for soil and rock engineering projects, and the preparation of reliable designs that account for uncertainty. It discusses qualitative risk assessments based on experience and judgment, as well as quant...Lasīt vairāk
The aim of the book is to provide practical help for executives, managers and research and development teams to identify where and how to apply advanced data analytics in mining engineering. Extensive case studies worked examples and details of how...Lasīt vairāk
Through the detailed reflections of a seasoned consultant and academic, this thought-provoking practitioner guide to landslides and slope problems and their investigation, analysis, and remediation considers both natural and man-made slopes and eart...Lasīt vairāk
This presents the complex phenomena occurring in the sensitive Venice silts and the geotechnical aspects of various environmental problems such as land subsidence and wetland surface reduction, and solutions such as the design of the tilting gate fo...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect serves as a reference on developments in rock dynamics scientific research and on rock dynamics engineering applications. The contributions in Volume 1 focus on analysis and theoretical development, and experimen...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect serves as a reference on developments in rock dynamics scientific research and on rock dynamics engineering applications. Volume 2 contains contributions on numerical modelling and methods, seismic and earthquake...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on the experience gained from building Japans largest LPG storage caves, Storage of LPG in Large Rock Caverns is a must-read for engineers, academics and students in the fields of rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering and related discipl...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book to systematically collate the various laboratory tests for unsaturated soils. It covers general background and theory along with test procedures and the interpretation of test results. It serves for students and researchers wh...Lasīt vairāk
Intermediate foundations are used as anchors for floating platforms and ancillary structures, foundations for steel jackets, and to support seafloor equipment and offshore wind turbines. When installed by suction, they are an economical alternative...Lasīt vairāk
Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in Volcanic Fields includes keynote lectures and papers from the 5th International Workshop on Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology in Volcanic Fields (RMEGV2021, Fukuoka, Japan, 9-10 September 2021)....Lasīt vairāk
This abstracts volume (including full keynote and invited papers) contains the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT22), held in Bologna, Italy, 8-10 June 2022....Lasīt vairāk
The book presents stresses and strains in road structures, water and heat migration within and between layers of road materials, and the effects of water on the strength and stiffness of those materials. It includes a deep analysis of soil compactio...Lasīt vairāk
Laboratory testing of fine-grained soils usually evaluates basic soil behaviour. This manual covers characterization tests such as determination of carbonate content, specific surface area, cation exchange capacity, and pore fluid salinity, and beha...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the use and limitations of earthwork models to be understood and appropriately applied. The basics of soil, rock and compaction mechanics as applied to field conditions is covered. Useful design practices as well the development a...Lasīt vairāk
Dredging is increasing in scale worldwide, deep sea disposal is being eliminated, and landfill disposal is becoming less sustainable. Yet these sediments offer a potentially useful construction resource. This has sparked considerable research in val...Lasīt vairāk
This book contains the invited lectures presented at the 3th International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites (IS NAPOLI 2022, Naples, Italy, 22-24 June 2022)....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Apr-2022, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118535295)
Up-to-date edition of Computational Geomechanics, broadening the focus of the first edition to include more applications This extended second edition of the highly successful book Computational Geomechanics with special reference to Earthquake En...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an introduction to numerical analysis in geomechanics and is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate study of the mechanics of porous, jointed rocks and soils....Lasīt vairāk
This text contains probabilistic analyses and reliability-based designs (RBD) for the enhancement of the Eurocode 7 (EC7) and the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) methods. Renowned cases in soil and rock engineering are analysed both determi...Lasīt vairāk
Manual of Geotechnical Laboratory Soil Testing covers physical, index & engineering properties of soils including compaction characteristics (optimum moisture content), permeability (coefficient of hydraulic conductivity), compressibility characteri...Lasīt vairāk
DDA is a numerical evolving method in rock mechanics practice. While the theory is covered in Shis book which was published in 1993, the verification, validation, and application of the method have not yet been presented in a concise form to profess...Lasīt vairāk
The stability of underground and surface geotechnical structures during and after excavation is of great concern as any kind of instability may result in damage to the environment as well as time-consuming high cost repair work. The forms of instabi...Lasīt vairāk
Mining activities may result in rock mass deterioration and instability that may lead to failure both in underground and open pit mines. Such deterioration represents a safety risk and may result in financial losses. Rock mass response may lead to g...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical information on how to design, how to excavate and how to monitor the structures during t...Lasīt vairāk
This book is concerned with time-dependency in rock mechanics and rock engineering, whose spectrum is very wide. While the term time-dependency involves time-dependent behavior/rate-dependent behavior of rocks in a conventional sense, this books att...Lasīt vairāk
Rock dynamics has become an important area in the field of rock mechanics and engineering. Related subjects include the failure of rocks and rock masses in the form of rockbursting, spalling, popping, collapse, toppling and sliding, blasting, non-de...Lasīt vairāk
