Foundation Design discusses fundamental concepts in the design of foundations. As with the author's previous work, the AJ Handbook of Building...
Landslides and Their Control provides information on slope stability; the origin of slope movements; and methods on how they are investigated...
The Penetrometer and Soil Exploration: Interpretation of Penetration Diagrams—Theory presents the many uses of the penetrometer for investigating soil...
Distributed in the East European countries, China, Northern Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and Mongolia by Academia, Prague, CzechoslovakiaThis book is based on...
Practical Problems in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, 1: Physical Characteristics of Soils, Plasticity, Settlement Calculations...
Tunneling in Rock reviews the theory and practice of engineering geology and its application to tunneling in rocks. This book explores the history of...
This volume provides a comprehensive overview on the vast amount of literature on solidification heat transfer. Chapter one develops important basic...
In this book, the authors present a review of the methods used for the solution of problems of stability and support of mine workings, based on the...
Until a few years ago, hydropower, road tunneling and mining were the main fields interested in rock mechanics. Now, however, rock mechanics is...
Soil rheology is a branch of soil mechanics investigating the origin of, and the time-dependent changes in the stressed and strained state of soil....