Soil & Rock

Intermediate foundations are used as anchors for floating platforms and ancillary structures, foundations for steel jackets, and to support seafloor equipment and offshore wind turbines. When installed by suction, they are an economical alternative to...

Disturbed Soil Properties and Geotechnical Design, Second edition describes the developments leading to the Original Cam Clay model, focusing on fundamentals of the shearing of soil. The first edition explained and illustrated fallacies in past work of...

No engineering structure can be built on the ground or within it without the influence of geology being experienced by the engineer. Yet geology is an ancillary subject to students of engineering and it is therefore essential that their training is...

Ground improvement has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving areas of geotechnical engineering and construction over the past 40 years. The need to develop sites with marginal soils has made ground improvement an increasingly important core...

The Critical State Framework for Soil Behaviour: New insight from DEM Simulations presents the latest on a topic that was originally proposed by Schofield and Wroth in the 1960s, and has subsequently proven to be a very good framework to describe sand...

Dieses Buch vereint umfassende Erfahrungen der Industriegeschichte zu Erdölbergwerken. Mit dieser außergewöhnlichen Sonderform der Erschließung wurde häufig sowohl die erste Entwicklungsstufe der Erdölgewinnung als auch eine nachhaltige Möglichkeit zur...

Die Eisenbahninfrastruktur weist eine große Anlagenvielfalt mit komplexen Wechselwirkungen auf. Diese Bandbreite und Komplexität von Bahnanlagen spiegelt das Nachschlagewerk mit Beiträgen von mehr als 50 Fachkräften aus allen Bereichen der...

This book stands as a manual and ready reference for structural engineers on the seismic protection of civil engineering structures. Beginning with a short historical overview, the book explains the concepts of seismic protection, describes the most...

Based on the construction of Nanjing Weisan Road Yangtze River Tunnel, this book comprehensively introduces the new technology of large-diameter shield tunnel construction crossing circular air shafts. It focuses on four aspects: the construction...