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This reference evaluates the efficacy, stability and strength of various soil walls, slopes, and structures enhanced by geosynthetic materials, presenting innovations in design layout, controlled construction and geosynthetic material implementation for improved cost-efficiency, maintenance and functioning in civil engineering applications.

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Author:   Hoe I. Ling (Columbia University, New York, New York, USA) ,  Dov Leshchinsky (University of Delaware, Newark, USA) ,  Fumio Tatsuoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780824742546

ISBN 10:   0824742540
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   19 August 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Civil and environmental applications of geosynthetics, Hoe I. Ling; performance properties of geogrids, Wim Voskamp; unit cell testing of reinforced soils, Hoe I. Ling; Modelling the time-dependent behaviour of geosynthetically reinforced soilstructures with cohesive backfill, Victor N. Kaliakin and M. Dechasakulsom; issue and nonissue in block walls as implied through computer-aided design, Dov Leshchinsky; application of sliding block concept to geosynthetic-constructed facilities, Hoe I.Ling; failure of an 8-m-high segmental block wall in the northeast United States, C.M. Reith, G.S. Paxson, and A.W. Cadden; displacement monitoring at Verrand high reinforced-soil structure, G. Sembenelli and P. Sembenelli; UD case study - BluewaterRetail and Leisure Destination reinforced soil slopes to form steep-sided new lakes, J.H. Dixon; state of the practice - past, current and future perspectives of reinforced soil retaining structures in Turkey, Muhannad Ismeik and Erol Guler; recentexperiences of reinforced retaining structures in China, Li Guangxin and Wang Zhao; large-scale reinforced clay walls backfilled with clay at Cheng Kung University, Ching-Chuan Huang, H.Y. Shan, G.Y. Jean, and A.L. Leu; geotextile reinforced abutments onsoft foundation, Ennio M. Palmeira, Andre Fahel, and Luiz E.P. Campos; geosynthetic reinforcement in the mitigation of pipeline flotation, Yoshiyuki Mohri, Toshinori Kawabata and Hoe I. Ling; practice and research of geosynthetic reinforced soil walls inAustralia, Sik-Cheung Robert Lo; geosynthetic reinforced containment dyke constructed over soft foundation - numerical analysis, Hoe I. Ling, Dongyi Yue and Victor N. Kaliakin; post-earthquake investigation of several geosynthetic reinforced soilretaining walls and slopes during Ji-Ji earthquake of Taiwan, Hoe I. Ling and Dov Leshchinsky; tests on seismic stability of several types of soil retaining walls, Junichi Koseki, Kenji Watanabe, Fumio Tatsuoka, Masaru Tateyama, Kenichi Kojima and YulmanMunaf; performance of geosynthetics reinforced soil wall and reinforced earth wall subject to blast loading - experimental and numerical study, Tan Siew Ann; shaking table tests of embankment models reinforced with geotextiles, S. Tani, S. Ihara, Y.Yokota, and Y. Okabe; centrifuge modelling of seismic performance of reinforced earth structure, Jiro Takemura and Akihiro Takahashi; performance analysis of arifiye overpass reinforced earth walls during the 1999 Kocaeli (Turkey) earthquake, C. GuneyOlgun and James R. Martin II; dynamic simulation of the reinforced slope failure at the Chi-Nan University during the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Nelson N.S. Chou and Chia-Cheng Fan; a compact probabilistic representation -the Chi-Chi earthquake groundmotion, A.W. Smyth, S.F. Masri, and C.H. Loh; a critical review of full-scale shaking table tests conducted on reinforced soil retaining walls, Hoe I. Ling.

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Hoe I. Ling (Columbia University, New York, New York, USA) (Edited by) , Dov Leshchinsky (University of Delaware, Newark, USA) (Edited by) , Fumio Tatsuoka (University of Tokyo, Japan) (Edited by)

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