Author: T. A. Newson ISBN: 0727732447 / 9780727732446 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Although foundation engineering is recognised as a mature discipline with geotechnics, the diversity of applications and studies evident in this book demonstrates that the field is still developing ...
Author: D. M. Smith, D. R. V. Jones, J. R. Greenwood, N. Dixon ISBN: 072773234X / 9780727732347 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This publication presents recent advances in the design, maufacture, development and use of geosynthetics in environmental applications. the publication covered a wide range of issues relevant to th...
Author: R. W. Henn ISBN: 0727729837 / 9780727729835 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
These guidelines focus on the grouting performed to fill the voids between the excavated surface and the tunnel and shaft linings. This comprehensive new book will help those in the underground cons...
Author: , O. Kjekstad, R. Kastner ISBN: 0727731246 / 9780727731241 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Increasing development in the urban environment and supporting infrastructure systems has necessitated a greater use of underground space and sites that were hitherto judges to be not economically v...
Author: J. Turek, R. Katzenbach ISBN: 0727731262 / 9780727731265 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This report has been prepared in the framework of the Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) Action C7 for Soil-Structure Interaction in the Urban Civil Engineering. Based on a survey in 13 E...
Author: John Knapton ISBN: 0727731866 / 9780727731869 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Ground bearing concrete floors, industrial concrete hardstandings and concrete highway pavements have not, in the past, been perceived as a single type of structural element and their construction h...
Author: F. G. Simon, T. Meggyes ISBN: 0727731211 / 9780727731210 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
In the second half of the twentieth century, increasing efforts were made towards containing and cleaning contaminated groundwater. A number of techniques can be used to achieve such goals, traditio...
Author: S. Kumar Shukla ISBN: 0727731173 / 9780727731173 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Geosynthetics are being used extensively throughout the world as they offer the most efficient and cost-effective solutions of a myriad of civil engineering problems. If properly protected, geosynt...
Author: B. Menzies, N. Simons ISBN: 0727729489 / 9780727729484 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
A short course in geotechnical site investigation is the third volume in the popular and authoritative 'Short course' series. This book focuses on the fundamental principles of geotechnical site inv...
Author: J. Jakeways, R.G. McInnes ISBN: 0727731327 / 9780727731326 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
During 2000/2001 exceptionally high winter rainfall resulted in major ground instability problems on the Isle of Wight, and coincided with the completion of important research on the predicted impac...
Author: A. R. Clark, E. M. Lee ISBN: 0727729853 / 9780727729859 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Cliff recession and coastal landsliding of soft rock cliffs present significant threats to land use and development.
Investigation and management of soft rock cliffs presents state-of-the-art gui...
Author: European Construction Institute Benelux ISBN: 0727731203 / 9780727731203 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The first volume in the ECI Pricing System series, this book deals specifically with the fabrication and erection of pipework. Pipework pervades all building and construction work and the cost of in...
Author: , , T. Paul ISBN: 0727731017 / 9780727731012 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Growing urban populations have resulted in the development of marginal land and brownfield sites as well as increasing the desirability of maximum utilisation of underground space. As a result, ther...
Author: E. Faragher, E. J. Murray, I. Jefferson, P. R. Fleming ISBN: 0727730436 / 9780727730435 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Problematic soils brings together in one volume a collection of papers presented at the Problematic Soils symposium, organised by East Midlands Geotechnical Group of the Institution of Civil Enginee...
Author: N. A. Trenter ISBN: 0727729667 / 9780727729668 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Nothing can be built without some excavation and transfer of soil (or rock) from one part of a site to another and this makes earthworks the most common product of civil engineering operations. Alth...
Author: CIRIA ISBN: 0727730177 / 9780727730176 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
The ability to predict the potential damage to buildings accurately and to have confidence in the chosen protective measures is of increasing importance for the viability of urban tunnelling.
The...
Author: D. M. Potts, L. Zdravkovic ISBN: 0727727834 / 9780727727831 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This comprehensive new two-volume work provides the reader with a detailed insight into the use of the finite element method in geotechnical engineering. As specialist knowledge required to perform ...
Author: D. M. Potts, L. Zdravkovic ISBN: 0727727532 / 9780727727534 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This comprehensive new two-volume work provides the reader with a detailed insight into the use of the finite element method in geotechnical engineering. As specialist knowledge required to perform ...
Author: David M Potts, Lidija Zdravkovic ISBN: 0727728121 / 9780727728128 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This comprehensive new two-volume work provides the reader with a detailed insight into the use of the finite element method in geotechnical engineering. As specialist knowledge required to perform ...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727729675 / 9780727729675 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
"Failing to assess properly can, and sadly still does, cost the construction industry millions of pounds. Much of that could be saved by intelligent use of foresight before the forced excavator even...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727729543 / 9780727729545 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume presents the proceedings of ConSoil 2000, the 7th International FZK/TNO conference on contaminated soil (in co-operation with UFZ Leipzig-Halle). This series of conferences focuses on po...
Author: Eddie Bromhead, Maia-Laura Ibsen, Neil Dixon ISBN: 0727728725 / 9780727728722 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
This valuable three volume set of publications contains vital information from throughout the world on landslide and slope instability problems.
Every four years the worlds leading scientists and...
Author: B. Menzies, N. Simons ISBN: 0727727516 / 9780727727510 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. ...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727727869 / 9780727727862 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
These conference proceedings address the wide range of geotechnical issues associated with urban development.
Part one of the book is devoted to the use of tunnelling to provide infrastructure in...
Author: Ladislav Fryba ISBN: 072773539X / 9780727735393 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book analyses the effects of moving loads on elastic and inelastic solids, elements and parts of structures and on elastic media, namely beams, continuous beams, beams on elastic foundations, r...
