Soil & rock mechanics books

The second edition (1997) of this text was a completely rewritten version of the original text Basic Coastal Engineering...  Read More >>

One challenge in atmospheric chemistry is understanding the intercontinental transport and transformation of gases...  Read More >>

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It is good to see that a great deal of new thought and research continues to flow from that initial research agenda,...  Read More >>

The past fifteen years has witnessed an explosive growth in the fundamental research and applications of artificial...  Read More >>

Over the last decade and particularly in recent years, the macroscopic porous media theory has made decisive progress...  Read More >>

This book includes a numerical investigation of shear localization in granular materials within micro-polar hypoplasticity,...  Read More >>

The evaluation indicated that except for the UN Water Conference, held in Argentina in 1977, the impacts of the...  Read More >>

Earthquakes and tsunamis cannot be prevented, but measures can be taken to minimize their damage. In this book,...  Read More >>

Mineral processing technologies have been used for decades to protect the environment and many examples of such...  Read More >>

One of the plausible perceptions about safe and generally optimal geotechnical structure, leads to the conclusion...  Read More >>

This chapter describes the processes involved in the transport of material over hillslopes. Hillslopes provide the...  Read More >>

It includes differential dynamical models of granular shearing, dynamical strength characteristics and the excited...  Read More >>

Due to their unique geophysical and geodynamic environment, both the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are often...  Read More >>

5 have killed as many as 20,000 people precisely because these earthquakes occurred directly beneath population...  Read More >>

Since the German edition of this book, the topic of risk has experienced even greater attention, not only in the...  Read More >>

Engineering geology for underground rocks is a sub-discipline of engineering geology for describing and solving...  Read More >>

Here is a thorough, up to date overview of the mechanochemistry of solids and minerals. Applications of mechanochemistry...  Read More >>

This book presents current progress in landslide science and consists of four parts: (1) Progress in Landslide Science,...  Read More >>

During the past few decades of the 20th and the first years of the present Century, economic losses and human casualties...  Read More >>

The book covers all aspects of the HDPE geomembrane field: HDPE...  Read More >>

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental rock deformation that is dominated by the phenomena...  Read More >>

As a rule, drilling projects are an integral component of major geosci- tific research programs, comprising comprehensive...  Read More >>

The book is about soft soil engineering and is intended to serve the practicing as well as the research engineers....  Read More >>

Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference...  Read More >>