Author: M G Winter ISBN: 0727729233 / 9780727729231 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
The crushing of general fill particles during compaction, sometimes seem as a problem, often produces a more stable compacted mass. This report considers the use of materials susceptible to crushing...
Author: M. Puller ISBN: 0727734598 / 9780727734594 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This book assembles the practical rules and details for the efficient and economical execution of deep excavations. It draws together a wealth of experience of both design and construction from publ...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727719327 / 9780727719324 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
The past 10 years have seen considerable advances in the practice of retaining wall design and construction.
This book makes a valuable and significant contribution to the literature available to...
Author: J. Hemsley ISBN: 0727725947 / 9780727725943 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This book explains the flexural analysis of plain raft foundations and related ground-bearing structures. It illustrates the basic principles of this difficult subject and includes many topics rangi...
Author: R. W. Sarsby ISBN: 0727726331 / 9780727726339 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume is concerned with sites on, or below, which there has been previous industrial activity leading to some permanent effects on the ground. A wide range of problems and impacts makes treatm...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727726420 / 9780727726421 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
In the past fifteen years experimental and theoretical characterisation of the pre-failure deformation properties of geomaterials has developed enormously. In recognition of these important research...
Author: D R Carder, P Darley ISBN: 0727729306 / 9780727729309 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Much of the urban development in the UK is founded on heavily overconsolidated sedimentary clays, which are particularly susceptible to swelling and softening following the reduction in stress cause...
Author: D R V Jones, E J Murray, N Dixon ISBN: 0727727087 / 9780727727084 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Geotechnical engineering of landfills is a symposium designed to provide a forum for the presentation of recent developments in the design, construction and operation of landfills facilities. The pa...
Author: R.E. Hester, R.M. Harrison ISBN: 0727725955 / 9780727725950 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This book deals with developments of a legal, technical and professional nature and relates these to the methods of risk assessment and their application.
Key developments in the UK over the past...
Author: Glyn Jones ISBN: 0727725750 / 9780727725752 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This work has been specifically written to describe finite difference solutions to variations in beam on elastic foundation problems using micro-computers. The accompanying BEF (Beam on Elastic Foun...
Author: C. Ford ISBN: 0727726048 / 9780727726049 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers together with the Institution of Engineering in Ireland.
It draws together the ...
Author: G S Littlejohn ISBN: 0727726072 / 9780727726070 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume presents the proceedings of the first major international conference for over twenty years on the state-of-the-art of ground anchorage technology. Leading researchers and practitioners f...
Author: M. C. R. Davies ISBN: 0727726056 / 9780727726056 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
The papers presented in this volume describe the latest developments from around the world on ground improvement by densification and reinforcement. They describe new research into improving the und...
Author: , A H Brookes, G West ISBN: 072772925X / 9780727729255 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
The use of lime-stabilised soil columns and lime piles as suitable treatments for improving slope stability on the clay earthworks of motorways is under consideration by the DETR and the Highways Ag...
Author: , R. Yong ISBN: 0727726064 / 9780727726063 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
Throughout the world there is an ever increasing awareness of the importance of environmental issues. Pollution of the natural environment is welfare. Nevertheless, economic stability and prosperity...
Author: C.J.F.P. Jones ISBN: 072773489X / 9780727734891 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume provides a comprehensive explanation and illustration of earth reinforcement and soil structures, from the viewpoint of practising engineers involved in design and construction. This edi...
Author: C. D. Warren, C. S. Harris, M. B. Hart, P. M. Varley ISBN: 0727720457 / 9780727720450 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
The Channel Tunnel has been called the greatest engineering project of the century, overcoming a unique set of financial, political and engineering challenges. This book provides a comprehensive ins...
Author: C. Craig ISBN: 0727725130 / 9780727725134 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
These proceedings of the international conference on advances in site investigation practice held in 1995 provide vital information for all professionals involved in the planning, execution, interpr...
Author: , C. D. F. Rogers, S. Glendinning ISBN: 0727725637 / 9780727725639 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This book has been compiled to meet the increased need for knowledge on alternative ground improvement techniques using lime. It brings together expertise and experience from industry and academia t...
Author: J. S. Harris ISBN: 0727719955 / 9780727719959 Year: 1995 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides an overview of the process of ground freezing, its relationship with other geotechnical methods, and its role as temporary work. It covers many aspects of the art and practice of ...
Author: T S Ingold ISBN: 072772083X / 9780727720832 Year: 1995 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides details of the materials, design considerations, applications and construction techniques currently employed in Europe. Topics covered include the development and use of polymetri...
Author: A L Bell ISBN: 0727719289 / 9780727719287 Year: 1994 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides an excellent opportunity for engineers to catch up with the latest trends in geotechinical grouting and provides an in-depth discussion of the advances, views and knowledge from a...
Author: W B Wilkinson ISBN: 0727719742 / 9780727719744 Year: 1994 Availability: Out of Stock
Changing groundwater levels are causing problems in many cities and urban areas throughout the world.
Over-abstraction of water for prolonged periods has caused levels to fall with ensuing founda...
Author: B. O. Skipp ISBN: 0727719866 / 9780727719867 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
Risk, the management of risk, reliability and related issues are coming increasingly to the fore in civil engineering. There is growing awareness that most decisions are made under uncertainty, and ...
Author: Proceedings of the Wroth Memorial Symposium ISBN: 0727719165 / 9780727719164 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
This book contains the 49 papers which form the proceedings of the Wroth Memorial Symposium. The themes of the symposium were soil properties and their measurement, especially means of in-situ tests...
