ISBN-13: 9780415804820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 626 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415804820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 626 str.
In recent years simulation-based predictions and monitoring tools have been developed to enquire the mechanisms underlying geohazards. This book is a comprehensive overview of recent developments, and will be of interest to engineers, researchers, and students in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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 geohazards. As a result the mitigation of geohazards has become a major research topic in geotechnical engineering, and in recent years simulation-based predictions and monitoring tools have been developed to enquire the mechanisms underlying geohazards.
This book is a comprehensive overview of these developments, and includes:
- Mechanisms of geohazards, namely, heavy rains, floods, typhoons, earthquakes, landslides, slope and snow slides, tsunamis, land subsidence, and coastal erosion;
- Numerical and analytical simulation methods for geohazards, including conventional and advanced methods, FDM, FEM, Extended FEM, DEM and SPH;
- Advanced constitutive modeling of geomaterials and numerical implementations and constitutive parameter determination using laboratory and field test results;
- Thermo-hydro-mechanical instabilities ;large deformations, strain localization, progressive failure, liquefaction, and the rapid flow of complex geofluids;
- Monitoring and non-destructive investigation methods;
- Evaluation of existing prediction methods, performance-based design methods, risk analysis and the management of mitigation programs;
- Case records of geohazards and mitigation projects.
Predication and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation will be of interest to engineers, researchers, students in Civil and Environmental Engineering.