Soil & rock mechanics books

The current state-of-the-art allows seismologists to give statistical estimates of the probability of a large earthquake...  Read More >>

The current state-of-the-art allows seismologists to give statistical estimates of the probability of a large earthquake...  Read More >>

Natural soft soils are very complex materials. As construction activities increasingly take place in poor ground...  Read More >>

This book contains the lectures given at the 2009 Symposium on Mechanics in Natural Solids held in Horto, Greece....  Read More >>

This volume covers the interdisciplinary field of disaster mitigation against earthquakes. It places special emphasis...  Read More >>

The book is a comprehensive treatment of the application of geotechnical engineering to site selection, site exploration,...  Read More >>

The second edition of this popular book provides an overview of the main facets of geology for engineers. Comprehensively...  Read More >>

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In Tokyo in 2008, a number of international organizations convened for the First World Landslide Forum. This book...  Read More >>

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

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The motivation of the 2nd International Workshop on Geotechnics of Soft Soils, organised by the AMGISS network (3-5...  Read More >>

Most solids emit low-level seismic signals known as acoustic emission/microseismic (AE/MS) activity. This second...  Read More >>

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""Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation"" presents the latest developments and case...  Read More >>

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

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These two volumes form the proceedings of the Second BGA International Conference on Foundations, organised by the...  Read More >>

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A collection of more than 270 papers presented at the 10th International Symposium for Landslides, Xi'an, China,...  Read More >>

Nach einer kompakten Darstellung der Grundlagen der Chemie und Wasserchemie führt das Buch in die einzelnen Verfahren...  Read More >>

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Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods for conducting soil and...  Read More >>

Presents various concerns and advances in rock mechanics, with special attention to: field investigation and instrumentation;...  Read More >>

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