Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Overconsolidated Clays
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Geotechnical Engineering
Author: V.N.S. MurthyPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824708733
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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.
Engineering Behaviour of Heavily Overconsolidated Clays and Clay Shales with Special Reference to Long-term Stability
Author: YudhbirInitiation of Failure in Slopes in Overconsolidated Clays and Clay Shales
Author: Ioannis V. ConstantopoulosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finite element method
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Landslides in Sensitive Clays
Author: Jean-Sébastien L'HeureuxPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400770790
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Landslides in sensitive clays represent a major hazard in the northern countries of the world such as Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and in the US state of Alaska. Past and recent examples of catastrophic landslides at e.g. Saint-Jean-Vianney in 1971, Rissa in 1979, Finneidfjord in 1996 and Kattmarka in 2009 have illustrated the great mobility of the remolded sensitive clays and their hazardous retrogressive potential. These events call for a better understanding of landslide in sensitive clay terrain to assist authorities with state-of-the-art hazard assessment methods, risk management schemes, mitigation measures and planning. During the last decades the elevated awareness regarding slope movement in sensitive clays has led to major advances in mapping techniques and development of highly sophisticated geotechnical and geophysical investigation tools. Great advances in numerical techniques dealing with progressive failure and landslide kinematic have also lead to increase understanding and predictability of landslides in sensitive clays and their consequences. This volume consists of the latest scientific research by international experts dealing with geological, geotechnical and geophysical aspects of slope failure in sensitive clays and focuses on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by landslides in such brittle materials.
Cyclic Degradation of Normally and Overconsolidated Clays Under Simple Shear Loading Conditions
Author: Mladen VuceticThe Behavior of Normally Consolidated and Heavily Overconsolidated Clays at Low Effective Stress
Author: Harcharan SinghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clay
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Landslides in Sensitive Clays
Author: Vikas ThakurPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319564870
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
This book gathers the most recent scientific research on the geological, geotechnical and geophysical aspects of slope failure in sensitive clays. Gathering contributions by international experts, it focuses on understanding the complete and practical spectrum of challenges presented by landslides in such complex materials. Based on sound and validated research results, the book also presents several recommendations that could be implemented in the guidelines or code-of-practice. These recommendations cover topics including the characterization and behavior of sensitive clays; the pre-failure, failure and post-failure stages of sensitive clays; mapping and identification methods; climate change; hazard assessment; and risk management. Sensitive clays are known for their potential for causing large landslides, which pose a serious risk to human lives, infrastructure, and surrounding ecosystems within their reach. This has been demonstrated by the recent catastrophic landslides in e.g. Sørum (2016), Skjeggestad (2015), Statland (2014), Byneset (2012), St-Jude (2010), Lyngen (2010) and Kattmarka (2009). The 2015 collapse of the Skjeggestad Bridge in Norway – which was due to a landslide in sensitive clay – alone costs millions of dollars in repairs. Recently, efforts are being made to increase society’s ability to cope with such landslide hazards. Geoscientists are now expected to provide input to the agencies responsible for landslide-risk preparedness. In other words, geoscientists’ role is not only to act as technologists to establish new theories, but also to go the extra mile to implement them in practice, so as to find meaningful solutions to geotechnical problems.
Numerical Models in Geomechanics
Author: G.N. PandePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9789058096364
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Reflecting the current research and advances made in the application of numerical methods in geotechnical engineering, this volume details proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on 'Numerical Models in Geomechanics - NUMOG IX' held in Ottawa, Canada, 25-27 August 2004. Highlighting a number of new developments in the area, papers concentrate upon the following four main areas: * constitutive relations for geomaterials * numerical algorithms: formulation and performance * modelling of transient, coupled and dynamic problems * application of numerical techniques to practical problems. Representing the most advanced, modern findings in the field, Numerical Models in Geomechanics is a comprehensive and impeccably-researched text, ideal for students and researchers as well as practising engineers.
Author: Giovanna Biscontin