Soil & rock mechanics books

This title provides an opportunity for engineers to catch up with trends in geotechnical grouting and provides an...  Read More >>

Presents guidelines for calculation of vertical displacements and settlement of soil under shallow foundations....  Read More >>

Provides a fundamental understanding of the behaviour of unsaturated soil. The book introduces the concepts of soil...  Read More >>

Updated and revised to include issues such as environmental concerns and pollution, in addition to soil and chemical...  Read More >>

Aim of this book is to present to researchers and engineers a description of the present knowledge on the viscoplasticity...  Read More >>

A comprehensive compilation concerned with a variety of modern methods being used worldwide to improve soil and...  Read More >>

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Provides an examination of the technical and scientific feasibility of substantial advances in drilling and related...  Read More >>

A study on rock mechanics in salt mining, this work includes coverage of the exploration and opening of salt mining,...  Read More >>

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Artificial ground freezing forms a temporary support for underground excavations and prevents pollution spreading...  Read More >>

This volume is based on a conference on numerical methods in geotechnical engineering held in Manchester in 1994....  Read More >>

This text outlines the problems commonly encountered during infrastructure constructions on soft and subsiding ground...  Read More >>

This examination of the physical and mechanical properties of eluvial soils covers modern methods of evaluating...  Read More >>

Soils formed or now existing under arid climatic conditions cover more than one-third of the world's land surface....  Read More >>

Covers strata mechanics, numerical methods in geomechanics, water jet cutting and mechanical disintegration of rocks....  Read More >>

Modern methods of rockburst prevention involve laying out the workings in such a way as to minimize dangerous concentrations...  Read More >>

This book reviews the developments that have taken place in the field of geotechnical engineering since the first...  Read More >>

Discussing rock breakage by blasting, this text includes: results...  Read More >>

Nature and composition of soils; the principle of effective stress and the state variables; fundamentals of continuum...  Read More >>

The development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials, with the help of numerical models, have increased...  Read More >>

This text presents up-to-date knowledge regarding lowlands, which are lands affected by fluctuating water levels....  Read More >>

These proceedings provide a reference on the application of centrifuge modelling in various geotechnical fields....  Read More >>

The subject of this work is of interest for hydrologists and hydrogeologists working on the estimation of the consequences...  Read More >>

This book describes how a number of different methods of analysis and modelling, including the boundary element...  Read More >>