Geo.Engineerings

Charles W. W. Ng, Bruce Menzies ... 712 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (December, 2007) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0415436796 - ISBN-13: 978-0415436793 ...

Analytical and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art book, examines the mechanics and engineering of unsaturated soils, as well as explaining the laboratory and field testing and research that are the logical basis of this modern approach to safe construction in these hazardous geomaterials; putting them into a logical framework for civil engineering and design. The book: illustrates the importance of state-dependent soil-water characteristic curves * highlights modern soil testing of unsaturated soil behaviour, including accurate measurement of total volume changes and the measurement of anisotropic soil stiffness at very small strains * introduces an advanced state-dependent elasto-plastic constitutive model for both saturated and unsaturated soil * demonstrates the power of numerical analysis which is at the heart of modern soil mechanics * studies and simulates the behaviour of loose fills from unsaturated to saturated states; explains the difference between strain-softening and static liquefaction, and describes real applications in unsaturated soil slope engineering * includes purpose-designed field trials to capture the effects of two independent stress variables, and reports comprehensive measurements of soil suction, water contents, stress changes and ground deformations in both bare and grassed slopes * introduces a new conjunctive surface and subsurface transient flow model for realistically analysing rainfall infiltration in unsaturated soil slopes, and illustrates the importance of the flow model in slope engineering. Including constitutive and numerical modelling, this volume will interest students and professionals studying or working in the areas of geotechnical engineering and the built environment.

Demetrios Tonias, Jim Zhao ... 488 pages- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2nd edition (September, 2006) ... Language: English- ISBN-10: 0071459030- ISBN-13: 978-0071459037 ...

Dimitrios Kolymbas ... 438 pages - Publisher: Springer; (March, 2008) - Language: English - ISBN-10: 3540251960 - ISBN-13: 978-3540251965.

This book covers not only practical aspects but also the underlying theoretical approaches. It also covers the fundamentals of rock mechanics. The book addresses not only students but also professionals who are interested to understand the underlying principles and methods and – possibly – to further develop them. Emphasis is given to the mechanical approach rather than to hardly tractable empirical statements. The text is concise and comprises a large list of citations.

Iris Eisenbach ... 
109 pages
Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag; 2011 edition (February 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3834809578
ISBN-13: 978-3834809575

This textbook is intended for students of materials science, of different branches of engineering and of related disciplines who need to re-activate their English language skills. Using authentic materials and figures selected from scientific texts, students will improve their reading, writing and speaking skills in a context relevant to their specialist studies.

Contents: Introduction - Characteristics of Materials - Metals - Ceramics - Polymers - Composites - Advanced Materials - Environmental Issues

Target Group: students of natural sciences, materials science and of different branches of engineering,
students of technical subjects at Berufsakademien, professionals in industry.

Evelien Keizer ... 
320 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 29, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199571872
ISBN-13: 978-0199571871

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at four independent levels of grammatical representation: pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological. The book offers a very systematic and highly accessible introduction to the theory: following the top-down organization of the model, it takes the reader step-by-step though the various levels of analysis (from pragmatics down to phonology), while at the same time providing a detailed account of the interaction between these different levels. The many exercises, categorized according to degree of difficulty, ensure that students are challenged to use the theory in a creative manner, and invite them to test and evaluate the theory by applying it to the new data in various linguistic contexts.

Evelien Keizer uses examples from a variety of sources to demonstrate how the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar can be used to analyse and explain the most important functional and formal features of present-day English. The book also contains examples from a wide variety of other typologically diverse languages, making it attractive not only to students of English linguistics but to anyone interested in linguistic theory more generally.