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: 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: ICE ISBN: 0727735233 / 9780727735232 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
This digital archive provides instant access to every paper published in Geotechnique from launch to 2001.
Geotechnique 50 provides you with:
Instant access to over 50 years of world-leading...
Author: K Miller, T Ingold ISBN: 0727713337 / 9780727713339 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
"... a well-written introductory text to geotextile manufacture, testing and applications; in addition there is a detailed compendium of products. It is therefore of interest to students and practis...
Author: John King, Stephen Corbet ISBN: 0727719246 / 9780727719249 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume reviews the uses of geotextiles filters, and their design, specification and testing for use in filtration and drainage. Case studies of successes and difficulties with geotextile filter...
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: , T. Meggyes ISBN: 0727730045 / 9780727730046 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
As the pressure to conserve agricultural land and green-field sites has grown it has become increasingly important to reclaim land that has been damaged by past industrial usage, e.g. areas of minin...
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: G.S. Littlejohn ISBN: 0727735616 / 9780727735614 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
Millions of ground anchorages have been installed over the past 80 years with relatively few recorded failures. However, as permanent anchorages in service become older, the subject is of growing im...
Author: C. Raison, Chris Raison Associates ISBN: 072773170X / 9780727731708 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
Methods for improving ground and soil have undergone significant developments in recent years, particularly in terms of application and usage, and many innovative techniques have been introduced. Ho...
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: 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: 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: 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: C. Thorne, D. Malcolm, D. Newson, D. Sear ISBN: 0727734849 / 9780727734846 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
The practical application of geomorphological science now forms a regular part of any project involving flood protection, fisheries, conservation, recreation, environmental protection and river rest...
Author: Martin Barnard ISBN: 0727726013 / 9780727726018 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
'This is an essential reference book for engineers, providing comprehensive coverage of health and safety, and incorporating the latest thinking. For legal and ethical reasons engineers must commit ...
Author: John Barber ISBN: 0727731181 / 9780727731180 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
All civil engineers and construction professionals concerned with the construction process have both professional and legal duties to take care, not only of their own health and safety at work, but ...
Author: Dr. Simon Joyston-Bechal, Helen Grice ISBN: 0727731238 / 9780727731234 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
This new edition highlights the main health and safety duties in a convenient and readable format, and provides extensive bibliographies that identify any related legislation and approved codes of p...
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: Construction Industry Council ISBN: 0727731289 / 9780727731289 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The benefits delivered by well-designed business premises are often intangible and thus overlooked in favour of low cost solutions. Current market-based approaches to property valuations frequently ...
Author: Brian Totterdill ISBN: 0727726641 / 9780727726643 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides practical guidance to the new ICE Adjudication Procedure (1997).
It includes a review of the requirements of the Housing Grants and Construction Regeneration Act 1996 and their...
Author: Geoffrey Hawker ISBN: 0727730452 / 9780727730459 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides an easy to use, clause-by-clause comparison of the changes between the 1st edition and the 2nd edition of the ICE Design and Construct Conditions of Contract.
This essential vo...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727715127 / 9780727715128 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
Drawing together a range of international experience in the techniques of planning, design and construction of submerged tubes, this book looks at the many uses of these tunnels - outside their prin...
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: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick, Stephen Vincent ISBN: 0727725971 / 9780727725974 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Civil engineers have always been pioneers, with a reputation for applying innovation when creating the infrastructure of cities and transport systems which we have all come to rely upon. Yet, when i...
