Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Civil - Soil & Rock

This comprehensive introduction to rock mechanics treats the basics of rock mechanics in a clear and straightforward manner and discusses important design problems in terms of the mechanics of materials. This extended third edition includes an additional chapter on Foundations on Jointed Rock.

Developed for a complete class in rock engineering, this volume uniquely combines the design of surface and underground rock excavations and addresses:
- rock slope stability in surface excavations, from planar block and wedge slides to rotational and toppling failures
- shaft and...

This rigorous textbook covers the construction, analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations, as well as retaining structures and slopes. It incorporates theory with practice, and emphasizes conceptual understanding. Estimation of soil parameters for use in design is given high priority. Illustrations, applications, and hands-on examples which continue across chapters are provided.

It is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and will suit specialist practicing engineers and researchers.

In this new edition:

• The...

This rigorous textbook covers the construction, analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations, as well as retaining structures and slopes. It incorporates theory with practice, and emphasizes conceptual understanding. Estimation of soil parameters for use in design is given high priority. Illustrations, applications, and hands-on examples which continue across chapters are provided.

It is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and will suit specialist practicing engineers and researchers.

In this new edition:

• The...

The concept of effective stress and effective stress equation are fundamental for establishing the theory of soil mechanics and poromechanics. However, up till now, the physical meaning of effective stress has not been explained clearly, and the theoretical basis of effective stress equation has not been proposed. Researchers have not yet reached a common sense on the feasibility of the concept of effective stress and effective stress equation for unsaturated soils. Considering the effect of pore fluid pressure and the external forces excluding pore fluid pressure on the soil skeleton...

Granular Geomechanics provides a comprehensive exploration of soils as granular materials and the manner in which a soil's engineering properties form grain-scale mechanics. The book focuses on granular composition and packing, grain interactions, discrete granular modeling and continuum constitutive modeling.

• Provides a coherent presentation on granular geomechanics for engineers
• Presents essential background information in each chapter, along with a list of works for further study
• Uses tensor notation, also including a brief explanation of...