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Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design
Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design is a comprehensive account of the open pit slope design process. Created as an outcome of the Large Open…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87441-0 (CRC Press)
Atlas of Remote Sensing of the Wenchuan Earthquake
In May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan County earthquake, 8.0 on the Richter Scale, caused devastating loss of human life and property. Applying all the remote…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-1-4398-1674-5 (CRC Press)
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Unsaturated Soils
Unsaturated soil mechanics is now increasingly recognized as an integral part of mainstream soil mechanics, and the importance and relevance of unsaturated soil mechanics for…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80480-6 (CRC Press)
Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions - Soft Rocks and Karst
Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions – Soft Rocks and Karst contains the Proceedings of the Regional Symposium of the International Society for Rock Mechanics…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80481-3 (CRC Press)
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Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
From Case History to Practice
This book presents current developments in performance-based design (PBD) in earthquake geotechnical engineering, including various case histories, numerical methods, soil investigations and engineering practice. Special…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55614-9 (CRC Press)
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Earthquake Geotechnical Case Histories for Performance-Based Design
ISSMGE TC4 2005-2009 Term Volume
Earthquake Geotechnical Case Histories for Performance-Based Design is a collection of 26 case histories, each study containing well-instrumented geotechnical and earthquake data. The book is…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80484-4 (CRC Press)
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Advanced Testing and Characterization of Bituminous Materials
Bituminous materials are used to build durable roads that sustain diverse environmental conditions. However, due to their complexity and a global shortage of these materials,…
read more2009 | Pack: 978-0-415-55854-9 (CRC Press)
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Predication and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation
including CD-ROM
The last decades have shown a remarkable increase in the number of heavy rains, typhoons and earthquakes. These natural phenomena are the main causes for…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80482-0 (CRC Press)
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Spatial Variation of Seismic Ground Motions
Modeling and Engineering Applications
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book provides coverage from seismological and engineering, deterministic and stochastic, as well as physical and mathematical points of view. The… read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-8493-9929-9 (CRC Press)
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Fundamental Concepts of Earthquake Engineering
While successfully preventing earthquakes may still be beyond the capacity of modern engineering, the ability to mitigate damages with strong structural designs and other mitigation…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-1-4200-6495-7 (CRC Press)
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Shale Engineering: Mechanics and Mechanisms
By Mohammad Asef, Mohsen Farrokhrouz
To be published May 1st 2010
Soil and Rock Description in Engineering Practice
By David Norbury
To be published May 15th 2010
Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading, 2nd Edition
By Lymon C. Reese, Willem van Impe
To be published June 1st 2010
Fundamentals of Plasticity in Geomechanics
By S. Pietruszczak
To be published June 22nd 2010
Research and Innovation using Geotechnical Physical Modelling: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2010), 28th June - 1st July, Zurich, Switzerland
Edited by Sarah Springman
To be published June 25th 2010
Concrete Face Rockfill Dams
By Paulo Cruz, Bayardo Materon, Manoel Freitas Jr.
To be published July 2nd 2010
Subdividing the Land: Metes and Bounds and Rectangular Survey Systems
By Gaby M. Neunzert
To be published September 1st 2010
Geological Repository Systems for Safe Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuels and Radioactive Waste
Edited by J. Ahn, M. J. Apted
To be published October 15th 2010
Acoustic Emission/Microseismic Activity, Volume 2: Geotechnical Field & Laboratory Applications
By Jr., H. Reginald Hardy
To be published November 1st 2010
Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering
By Mohammed M. Ettouney, Sreenivas Alampalli
To be published November 9th 2010
Understanding Structural Engineering: From Theory to Practice
By Wai-Fah Chen, Salah El-Din E. El-Metwally
To be published January 15th 2011
Foundations of Geotechnical Engineering
By Ian Jefferson, Matthew Frost, John Greenwood, Gurmel Ghataora
To be published February 2nd 2011
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