GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING pdf

 PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE BOOK 'GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING'

There are not many books that cover both soil mechanics and foundation engineering which a student can use for his paper on Geotechnical Engineering. This paper is studied compulsorily

and available books, whatever few are there, have not been found satisfactory. Students are compelled to refer to three or four books to meet their requirements. The author has been prompted by the lack of a good comprehensive textbook to write this present work. He has made a sincere effort, to sum up, his experience of thirty-three years of teaching in the present book. The notable features of the book are as follows:

Hillslope Hydrology and Stability

Landslides occur when hillslopes become mechanically unstable, because of meteorological and geologic processes, and pose a serious threat to human environments in their proximity. The mechanical balance within hillslopes is governed by two coupled physical processes: hydrologic or subsurface flow and stress. 

Handbook of Engineering Hydrology -Environmental Hydrology and Water Management

Contents Preface......................................................................................................................................... vii Editor ........................................................................................................................................... xi Contributors.............................................................................................................................xiii 

1 Anthropocenic Aquifer: New Thinking..................................................................... 1 

Anthony Richard Turton and Frederik Stefanus Botha 

Geostatistics for Environmental and Geotechnical Applications

Foreword

This publication, Geostatistics for Environmental and Geotechnical Applications, contains papers presented at the symposium of the same name held in Phoenix, Arizona on 26-27 Jan. 1995. The symposium was sponsored by ASTM Committee on DIS on Soil and Rock. 

The symposium co-chairmen were: R. Mohan Srivastava, FSS International; Dr. Shahrokh Rouhani, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc V. Cromer, Sandia National Laboratories; and A. Ivan Johnson, A. Ivan Johnson, Inc.

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Geostatistics for Environmental and Geotechnical Applications

Engineering rock mechanics

An introduction to the principles 

Preface of the Book

With the title Engineering Rock Mechanics, what is this book about? It is about the discipline, based on mechanics, which is used to design structures built on or in rock masses. These structures, which encompass building foundations, dams, rock slopes, tunnel, caverns, hydroelectric schemes, mines, etc., depend critically on the rock mass properties and the interaction between the rock mass and the engineered structure. As a result, the distinct discipline of engineering rock mechanics has developed. The term ’rock mechanics’ refers to the basic science of mechanics applied to rocks; whilst the term ’rock engineering’ refers to any engineering activity involving rocks.

Principles of Geotechnical Engineering by BRAJA M. DAS, Seventh Edition

This new edition offers an overview of soil properties and mechanics, together with coverage of field Prentice's and basic engineering procedures without changing the basic philosophy in which the text was written originally.

Preface of the Book

Principles of Geo technical Engineering was originally published with a 1985 copyright and was intended for use as a text for the introductory course in geotechnical engineering taken by practically all civil engineering students, as well as for use as a reference book for practicing engineers. The book was revised in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006. 

This Seventh Edition is the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the text. As in the previous editions of the book, this new edition offers an overview of soil properties and mechanics, together with coverage of field Prentice's and basic engineering procedures without changing the basic philosophy in which the text was written originally.

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides -Volume 1

ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025

Kyoji Sassa • Matjaž Mikoš Yueping Yin, Editors

Foreword

Landslides are a serious geological hazard. Among the host of natural triggers are intense rainfall, flooding, earthquakes or volcanic eruption, and coastal erosion caused by storms that are all too often tied to the El Niño phenomenon. Human triggers including deforestation, irrigation or pipe leakage, and mining spoil piles, or stream and ocean current alteration can also spark landslides. Landslides occur worldwide but certain regions are particularly susceptible. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization underlines that steep terrain, vulnerable soils, heavy rainfall, and earthquake activity make large parts of Asia highly susceptible to landslides. Other hotspots include Central, South, and Northwestern America.

Book: Soil Mechanics Fundamental

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