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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Author : Steven Lawrence Kramer

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 15,68 MB

Release : 2024-10

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9781032842776

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Book Description

"This fully-updated new edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake engineering to first-time readers (typically first-year graduate students) with a level of detail that will be useful to more advanced students, as well as researchers and practitioners. It covers the topic of geotechnical earthquake engineering beginning with an introduction to seismology and earthquake ground motions. It also includes hazard analysis and performance-based earthquake engineering design and dynamic soil properties. These topics are followed by site response and its analysis and soil-structure interaction"--



Geotechnical Engineering

Author : Jean-Louis Briaud

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 1783 pages

File Size : 24,36 MB

Release : 2013-10-02

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1118415744

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Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics. Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics. This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses.



Engineering Seismology

Author : Özdoğan Yilmaz

Publisher :

Page : 954 pages

File Size : 42,31 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Earthquake engineering

ISBN : 9781560803294

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Book Description

The scope of engineering seismology includes geotechnical site investigations for buildings and engineering infrastructures, such as dams, levees, bridges, and tunnels, landslide and active-fault investigations, seismic microzonation, and geophysical investigations of historic buildings. These projects require multidisciplinary participation by the geologist, geophysicist, and geotechnical and earthquake engineers. A key objective of this book (SEG Investigations in Geophysics Series No. 17) by Öz Yilmaz is to encourage the specialists from these disciplines to apply the seismic method to solve the many challenging engineering problems they face. The broader scope of engineering seismology also includes exploration of earth resources, including groundwater exploration, coal and mineral exploration, and geothermal exploration. While focusing on the application of the seismic method to geotechnical site investigations, this book includes many case studies in all of the applications of engineering seismology.



Geotechnical Engineering in Residual Soils

Author : Laurence D. Wesley

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 43,99 MB

Release : 2010-08-05

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0470644389

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Book Description

Wiley has long held a pre-eminent position as a publisher of books on geotechnical engineering, with a particular strength in soil behavior and soil mechanics, at both the academic and professional level. This reference will be the first book focused entirely on the unique engineering properties of residual soil. Given the predominance of residual soils in the under-developed parts of the United States and the Southern Hemisphere, and the increasing rate of new construction in these regions, the understanding of residual soils is expected to increase in importance in the coming years. This book will be written for the practicing geotechnical engineer working to any degree with residual soils. It will describe the unique properties of residual soil and provide innovative design techniques for building on it safely.The author will draw on his 30 years of practical experience as a practicing geotechnical engineer, imbuing the work with real world examples and practice problems influenced by his work in South America and Southeast Asia.



Geotechnical Engineering of Dams

Author : Robin Fell

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 1374 pages

File Size : 11,14 MB

Release : 2014-11-21

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0203387317

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Book Description

This book provides a comprehensive text on the geotechnical and geological aspects of the investigations for and the design and construction of new dams and the review and assessment of existing dams. The book provides dam engineers and geologists with a practical approach, and gives university students an insight into the subject of dam engineering. All phases of investigation, design and construction are covered, through to the preliminary and detailed design phases and ultimately the construction phase. This revised and expanded 2nd edition includes a lengthy new chapter on the assessment of the likelihood of failure of dams by internal erosion and piping.



Geotechnical Engineering

Author : V.N.S. Murthy

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 1066 pages

File Size : 26,12 MB

Release : 2002-10-25

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780824708733

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Book Description

A must have reference for any engineer involved with foundations, piers, and retaining walls, this remarkably comprehensive volume illustrates soil characteristic concepts with examples that detail a wealth of practical considerations, It covers the latest developments in the design of drilled pier foundations and mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall and explores a pioneering approach for predicting the nonlinear behavior of laterally loaded long vertical and batter piles. As complete and authoritative as any volume on the subject, it discusses soil formation, index properties, and classification; soil permeability, seepage, and the effect of water on stress conditions; stresses due to surface loads; soil compressibility and consolidation; and shear strength characteristics of soils. While this book is a valuable teaching text for advanced students, it is one that the practicing engineer will continually be taking off the shelf long after school lets out. Just the quick reference it affords to a huge range of tests and the appendices filled with essential data, makes it an essential addition to an civil engineering library.



Geotechnical Engineering Handbook

Author : Braja M. Das

Publisher : J. Ross Publishing

Page : 801 pages

File Size : 26,16 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1932159835

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Book Description

The Geotechnical Engineering Handbook brings together essential information related to the evaluation of engineering properties of soils, design of foundations such as spread footings, mat foundations, piles, and drilled shafts, and fundamental principles of analyzing the stability of slopes and embankments, retaining walls, and other earth-retaining structures. The Handbook also covers soil dynamics and foundation vibration to analyze the behavior of foundations subjected to cyclic vertical, sliding and rocking excitations and topics addressed in some detail include: environmental geotechnology and foundations for railroad beds.



Geotechnical Engineering

Author : Renato Lancellotta

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 520 pages

File Size : 45,77 MB

Release : 2008-07-22

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1482265931

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Book Description

Suitable for undergraduates in geotechnical engineering and for use by graduate students, this book explores not only the basics but also several advanced aspects of soil behaviour. Readers gain a good grasp of applied mechanics, testing and experimentation, and methods for observing real structures. Numerous worked examples are included, as is essential reading for students at the end of each chapter.Selected contents:1. Nature and composition of soils 2. Principles of continuum mechanics 3. Constitutive models 4. The porous medium 5. Mechanical behaviour of soils 6. Flow in porous media 7. In situ investigations 8. The collapse of soil structures 9. Performance and serviceability o



An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering

Author : Robert D. Holtz

Publisher : Prentice Hall

Page : 853 pages

File Size : 35,28 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780130317216

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"Intended for use in the first of a two course sequence in geotechnical engineering usually taught to third- and fourth-year undergraduate civil engineering students. An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering offers a descriptive, elementary introduction to geotechnical engineering with applications to civil engineering practice."--Publisher's website.