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Ulrich Smoltczyk ... 787 pages - Publisher: Ernst&Sohn; (June, 2002)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3433014493 - ISBN-13: 978-3433014493

Volume 1 covers the basics necessary for any construction activity in foundation engineering. This systematic introduction to the assessment of soil and rock properties provides an insight into the requirements of Eurocode 7, Parts 1 and 3. It also gives details of geotechnical laboratory and field tests and the associated equipment, concise treatments of relevant solutions provided by the theories of elasticity and plasticity and numerical methods applied to solve problems of geotechnical design. The problems of earthquakes are also explained with regard to Eurocode 8.

701 pages - Publisher: Ernst&Sohn; (January, 2003) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3433014507 - ISBN-13: 978-3433014509 ... 

Volume 2 of the handbook covers the geotechnical procedures used in manufacturing anchors and piles as well as for improving or underpinning foundations, securing existing constructions, controlling ground water, excavating rocks and earth works. It also treats such specialist areas as the use of geotextiles and seeding.

666 pages - Publisher: Ernst&Sohn; (April, 2003) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3433014515 - ISBN-13: 978-3433014516 ...

Volume 3 of this handbook deals with foundations. It presents spread foundations starting with basic designs right up the necessary proofs. The section on pile foundations covers possible types of piles and their design, together with their load-bearing capacity, suitability, sample loads and testing. A further chapter explains the use, manufacture and calculation of caissons, illustrated by real-life examples. There is comprehensive coverage of the possibilities for stabilising excavations, together with the relevant area of application, while another section is devoted to the useful application of trench walls. Shore protection is treated in a special contribution covering sheet pile walls, while all types of slope protection and retainments are described in detail with excellent illustrations. Two further contributions are devoted to the special topics of machine foundations and foundations in subsidence regions. The entire book is an indispensable aid in the planning and execution of all types of foundations found in practice, whether for academics or practitioners.

Pietro Lunardi ... 576 pages - Publisher: Springer; 2008 edition (April, 2008) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3540738746 - ISBN-13: 978-3540738749 ...

This work illustrates how the Analysis of Controlled Deformation in Rocks and Soils (ADECO-RS) is used in the design and the construction of tunnels. This is a very new and effective way of tunnel construction. The ADECO-RS approach makes a clear distinction between the design and the construction stages and allows reliable forecasts of construction times and costs to be made. It uses the advance core (the core of ground ahead of the face) as a structural tool for the long and short term stabilisation of tunnels, after its rigidity has first been regulated using conservation techniques.

R. Huang ... 360 pages - Publisher: T&F Books, UK (December, 2008) ...
Language: English - ASIN: B001OMWIQM by Amazon Digital Services ...

A comprehensive collection of papers dedicated to one of the most complex underground works recently undertaken, covering a variety of topics: Experiment and design; Construction and monitoring; Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation; Risk asssessment, and Project management. This book will be invaluable to scientists and engineers working in the analysis, design, construction and management of tunnels in soft ground.

Jong Wan Hu ... 
432 pages - Publisher: CRC Press (October 29, 2015)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1138027782 - ISBN-13: 978-1138027787

This book introduces new smart connection systems which can be used in aseismic building design in order to control inter-story drifts and to reduce residual displacements. They are also utilized as damper devices and base isolators. The application of these systems to composite moment frame buildings will also be treated in the book. In addition, the book will discuss how to make nonlinear frame models used for simulating entire behavior in the building as well as advance finite element (FE) models used for accurately reproducing mechanical behavior in the local system. Will be of interest to researchers, engineers, and students in the field of civil and structural engineering.

Nikos D. Lagaros, Yiannis Tsompanakis ... 462 pages - Publisher: IGI Global; 1st edition (February, 2007) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1599040999 - ISBN-13: 978-1599040998 ...

The enormous advances in computational hardware and software resources over the last fifteen years resulted in the development of non-conventional data processing and simulation methods. Among these methods artificial intelligence (AI) has been mentioned as one of the most eminent approaches to the so-called intelligent methods of information processing that present a great potential for engineering applications. Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering contains contributions that cover a wide spectrum of very important real-world engineering problems, and explore the implementation of neural networks for the representation of structural responses in earthquake engineering. This book assesses the efficiency of seismic design procedures and describes the latest findings in intelligent optimal control systems and their applications in structural engineering. Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering presents the application of learning machines, artificial neural networks and support vector machines as highly-efficient pattern recognition tools for structural damage detection. It includes an AI-based evaluation of bridge structures using life-cycle cost principles that considers seismic risk, and emphasizes the use of AI methodologies in a geotechnical earthquake engineering application.