Desert Dust in the Global System
Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world’s drylands, are a vital component of the environment. ...
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Design and Construction of Tunnels : Analysis of controlled deformation in rocks and soils (ADECO-RS)
It uses the advance core (the core of ground ahead of the face) as a structural tool for the long and short term stabilisation ...
Lire la suiteDesign applications of raft foundations
Examines alternative design procedures for plain and piled raft foundations. Chapters are written by leading consultants ...
Lire la suiteDesigners' Guide to EN 1997-1 Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design – General Rules
Designers' Guide to EN 1997-1 presents a detailed guide to the new Geotechnical Design Eurocode.As such it gives an invaluable ...
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Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data
This book focuses on digital soil mapping methodologies and applications for areas where data are limited, and has the following ...
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Digital Terrain Modelling
This book presents a set of papers on Digital Terrain Modelling for Policy Support which aims to be informative and stimulating ...
Lire la suiteDisturbed soil properties and geotechnical design
Describes the developments leading to the Original Cam Clay model, focusing on fundamentals of the shearing of soil. The ...
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Dynamics of Freezing-Thawing Soil around Subway Shield Tunnels / Zhen-Dong Cui
Addresses development laws for axial strain and excess pore water pressure in silty clay around subway shield tunnels before ...
Lire la suiteDynamics of soils and their engineering applications
Offers systematic dynamic analysis of soils and their engineering applications, including machine foundations, and aims to ...
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Earth Sciences and Mathematics : Volume 1
This volume contains papers addressing different topics as deformation modelling applied to natural hazards, inverse gravimetric ...
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Earth Structures : In Transport, Water and Environmental Engineering
This book describes the principles of working with soil as a construction material, including two basic ways of treating ...
Lire la suiteEarth reinforcement and soil structures
Provides a comprehensive explanation and illustration of earth reinforcement and soil structures, from the viewpoint of practising ...
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Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
This book contains the full papers on which the invited lectures of the 4th International Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake ...
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Eco-and Ground Bio-Engineering: The Use of Vegetation to Improve Slope Stability
In an era where climate change, natural catastrophes and land degradation are major issues, the conservation of soil and ...
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Ecology of Tidal Freshwater Swamps of the Southeastern United States
This book draws together the latest findings from investigators focusing on the hydrological processes, community organization, ...
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Ecophysiology of High Salinity Tolerant Plants
Halophytes get increasing attention today because of the steady increase of the salinity in irrigation systems in the arid ...
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Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape
Presents the major findings of a 12-year ecological study of the Bornhöved Lake District, situated some 30 km south of Kiel. ...
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Encyclopedia of Soil Science
The Encyclopedia of Soil Science provides a comprehensive, alphabetical treatment of basic soil science in a single volume. ...
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Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems
"Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents" contains 13 contributions analyzing such areas of AI as fuzzy ...
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Environmental Bioremediation Technologies
Environmental contamination from both natural and anthropogenic sources is, today, a major environmental concern due to pervasiveness ...
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