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Geoengineering Library
A collection of publications available on the
internet at no cost. (Currently 942 different resources in 20 sections).
New Additions:
Soil Mechanics
Alan R. Crumley, Américo L. Fernández, Carlos A. Regalado, (2003).
Compressibility Relationships for Soils in Puerto Rico Correlaciones de
Compresibilidad para Suelos en Puerto Rico. Soil and Rock America, 12th
Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ian F. Collins, Tamsyn Hilder, (2002). A theoretical framework for
constructing elastic/plastic constitutive models of triaxial tests.
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in
Geomechanics, 2002; 26:1313-1347 (DOI: 10.1002/nag.247). John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd.
Rock Mechanics
Mark Stephen Diederichs, (1999). Instability of Hard Rockmasses: The
Role of Tensile Damage and Relaxation. PhD Thesis, University of
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
M.S. Diederichs, P.K. Kaiser, E. Eberhardt, (2004). Damage initiation
and propagation in hard rock during tunnelling and the influence of
near-face stress rotation. International Journal of Rock Mechanics
& Mining Sciences 41 (2004) 785-812. Elsevier Ltd.
D.M. Doolin, N. Sitar, (2001). DDAML - discontinuous deformation
analysis markup language. International Journal of Rock Mechanics &
Mining Sciences 0 (2001) 1-8. Elsevier Science Ltd.
Foundation Design
D.V. Griffiths, G.A. Fenton, (2005). Probabilistic settlement analysis
of rectangular footings. 16th ICSMGE, Osaka, Japan.
Gordon A. Fenton, D. V. Griffiths, (2001). Bearing Capacity of
Spatially Random c-phi Soils. Proceedings of the 10th International
Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG
01), Tucson, Arizona, pp. 1411-1415.
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics
Robb Eric Shedwick Moss, (2003). CPT-Based Probabilitic Assessment of
Seismic Soil Liquefaction Initiation. PhD Thesis, Engineering-Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Berkeley, California.
Peter M. Byrne, Sung-Sik Park, Michael Beaty, Michael Sharp, Lenart
Gonzalez, Tarek Abdoun, (2004). Numerical modeling of liquefaction and
comparison with centrifuge tests. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 41:
193-211 (2004) doi: 10.1139/T03-088. NRC Canada.
P. M. Byrne & S. S. Park, M. Beaty, (2003). Seismic liquefaction:
centrifuge and numerical modeling. FLAC and Numerical Modeling in
Geomechanics, pp.321-331.
S. S. Park & P. M. Byrne, (2004). Numerical modeling of soil
liquefaction at slope site. International Conference on Cyclic
behaviour of soils and liquefaction, pp.571-580.
Environmental Geotechnics
Ulrich Langer, (2005). Shear and Compression Behaviour of Undegraded
Municipal Solid Waste. PhD Thesis, Loughborough University.
Geotechnical Investigations & In-situ testing
W. Broere, (2001). Tunnel Face Stability & New CPT Applications.
PhD Thesis, Delft University of Technology, Delft.
W. Broere, A.F. van Tol, (2001). Horizontal cone penetration testing in
sand. Proceedings of the XVth Inernational Conference on Soil Mechanics
and Foundation Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001, pp. 555-558.
Ground Improvement
R.D. Barksdale, R.C. Bachus, (1983). Design and Construction of Stone
Columns Volume II, Appedixes. Report No: FHWA/RD-83/027. School of
Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta - Georgia.
Federal Highway Administration, Office of Engineering and Highway
Operations Research and Development, Washington D.C.
Report No: FHWA/RD-86/168. Prefabricated Vertical Drains, (1986). US
Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Research,
Development and Technology.
Tom Armour, Paul Groneck, James Keelev, Sunil Sharma, (2000). Micropile
Design and Construction Guidelines Implementation Manual - Priority
Technologies Program (PTP) Project. PUBLICATION NO. FHWA - SA - 97 -
070. US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration,
Priority Technologies Program.
Tunneling & Underground Construction
M. Barla, S. Ferrero, G. Barla, (2003). A new approach for predicting
the swelling behaviour of expansive clays in tunnelling. International
Conference on New Developments in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical
Engineering ZM2003, Lefkosa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 29-31
May 2003.
Dams & Embankments
Raymond J. Krizek, (2004). Slurries in Geotechnical Engineering. The
Twelfth Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University, College
Station, Texas.
Soil Mechanics Note No.13 210VI: ENG - Dispersive Clays, (1991). U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service Engineering
Division.
Engineering Geology
Terry Engelder, (1987). Joints and Shear Fractures in Rock. Fracture
Mechanics of Rock. Academic Press Inc. London Ltd.
Geosynthetics
Wesseloo Johan, (2004). The strength and stiffness of geocell support
packs. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering,
University of Pretoria.