Soil & Rock Mechanics

Unsaturated soil is a three-phase material that is ubiquitous on the Earths surface and exhibits complex behaviour, which becomes more complex in r...

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...

This book is part of a bold, new initiative towards global sustainability and development that draws on the disciplines of geotechnical engineering...

The magnitude Ms 8.0 (Mw 7.9) Wenchuan earthquake occurred on 12 May 2008 in the Longmen Shan region of Chinathe topographical boundary between the...

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...

This accessible, clear and concise textbook strikes a balance between theory and practical applications for an introductory course in soil mechanic...

Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment of different types of structur...

Soil Mechanics Lab Manual prepares readers to enter the field with a collection of the most common soil mechanics tests. The procedures for all of ...

T. Wichtmann, T. Triantafyllidis: Behaviour of granular soils under environmentally induced cyclic loads. - D. Muir Wood: Constitutive modelling. -...

F.K. Lehner: A Review of the Linear Theory of Anisotropic Poroelastic Solids. - J.W. Rudnicki: Eshelby's Technique for Analyzing Inhomogeneities in...

The main goal of this introductory text is to demonstrate how basic concepts in Soil Mechanics can be used as a forensic tool in the investigation ...

Soil is matter in its own right. Its nature can be captured by means of monotonous, cyclic and strange attractors. Thus material properties are def...

This book features selected research papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security (IC4S ...

This book is Volume 1 of the EUROCK 2018 proceedings. Geomechanics and Geodynamics of Rock Masses contains contributions presented at EUROCK 2018, ...

Given the recent advances in site investigation techniques, computing, access to information and monitoring, plus the current emphasis on safety, a...

Geochemical modeling is an important tool in environmental studies, and in the areas of subsurface and surface hydrology, pedology, water resources...

At some time 30% of the worlds land mass was covered by glaciers leaving substantial deposits of glacial soils under major conurbations in Europe, ...

Residual soils are found in many parts of the world and are used extensively as construction materials for roads, embankments and dams, and to supp...