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Geoengineering Library
A collection of publications available on the
internet at no cost. (Currently 1223 different resources in 20
sections).
New Additions:
Soil Mechanics
M.D. Fredlund, D.G.Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (2000). Estimation of Volume
Change Functions for Unsaturated Soils. Unsaturated Soils for Asia,
Rahardjo, Toll & Leong (eds), Balkema, Rotterdam.
Claudia E. Zapata, William N. Houston, Sandra L. Houston, Kenneth D.
Walsh, (2000). Soil-Water Characteristic Curve Variability. Advances in
Unsaturated Geotechnics, Denver, Colorado, August 5-
8, pp. 84-123.
D.A. Swanson, G. Savci, G. Danziger, R.N. Mohr, T. Weiskopf, (1999).
Predicting the Soil-Water Characteristics of Mine Soils. Proceedings of
the Sixth International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste
Conference, Ft. Collins, Colorado, January 24-27, pp. 345-349.
S.K. Vanapalli, W.S. Sillers and M.D. Fredlund, (1998). The Meaning and
Relevance of Residual State to Unsaturated Soils. 51st Canadian
Geotechnical Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 4-7, 1998.
M.D. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, D.G. Fredlund, (1998). Estimation of
Hydraulic Properties of an Unsaturated Soil using a Knowledge-Based
System. Second International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT98,
Beijing, China, August 27-30.
Rock Mechanics
M. Datcheva, (2001). Constitutive Modelling of the Creep Behaviour of
Chalk. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, No. 2, 2001, pp.
53-64.
Siavash Ghabezloo, Ahmad Pouya, (2006). Numerical Modelling of the
Effect of Weathering on the Progressive Failure of Underground
Limestone Mines. Eurock 2006, Multiphysics Coupling and Long Term
Behaviour in Rock Mechanics: Proceedings of the International Symposium
of the International Society for Rock Mechanics, Eurock 2006,
Liège, Belgium, 9-
12 May 2006.
REMR Technical Note CS-MR-8.3: Case History of Improving Structural
Stability of Concrete Structures on Rock: Grouting, Crack Repair, and
Installation of Rock Anchors at John Day Lock and Dam. This technical
note is taken from "John Day Lock Repair," by Ken J. Neugerger, US Army
Corps of Engineers, Portland District, In: Concrete Structures Repair
and Rehabilitation, Vol. C-82-1, Sep 1982, US Army Engineer Waterways
Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS.
REMR Technical Note CS-MR-8.4: Case History of Improving Stability of
Concrete Structures on Rock: Installation of Rock Anchors to improve
Stability against Sliding, Alum Creek Dam. This technical note is taken
from "Anchoring of Spillway Monoliths, Alum Creek Lake, Ohio," by
William D. Barnes, US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, In:
Concrete Structures Repair and Rehabilitation, Vol. C-82-1, Sep 1982,
US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS.
REMR Technical Note CS-MR-8.5: Case History of Improving Structural
Stability of Concrete Structures on Rock: Installation of Rock Anchors
to improve Stability against Overturning, Lock No. 3, Monongahela
River. This technical note is taken from "Experience and Problems in
the Pittsburgh District Installing Rock Anchors at Lock 3, Monongahela
River," by Anton Krysa, US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh
District, In: Concrete Structures Repair and Rehabilitation, Vol.
C-82-1, Sep 1982, US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station,
Vicksburg, MS.
Foundation Design
D.J. White, B.M. Lehanet, (2004). Friction Fatigue on Displacement
Piles in Sand. Geotechnique 54, No.10, pp. 645-658.
N. Thasnanipan, A.W. Maung, B. Ganeshan, (1998). Sonic Integrity Test
on Piles founded in Bangkok Subsoil - Signal Characteristics and their
Interpretations. 4th International Conference on Case Histories in
Geotechnical Engineering, March 8-12, 1998 St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
N. Thasnanipan, A.W. Maung, P. Tangseng, (2000). Sonic Integrity Test
of Piles-Integrity effected by Basement Excavation in Bangkok Soft
Clay. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the
Application of Stress-Wave Theory to Piles - Quality Assurance on Land
and Offshore Piling, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 11-13 September 2000.
N. Thasnanipan, A.W. Maung, T. Navaneethan and Z.Z. Aye, (2000).
Non-Destructive Integrity Testing on Piles founded in Bangkok Subsoil.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Application of
Stress-
Wave Theory to Piles - Quality Assurance on Land and Offshore Piling,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 11-13 September 2000.
N. Thasnanipan, A.W. Maung, P. Tanseng, (1998). Barrettes Founded in
Bangkok Subsoils, Construction and Performance. Proceedings of the 13th
Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference, November 16-20 1998, Taipei,
ROC.
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics
Scott M. Olson, Stephen F. Obermeier, Timothy D. Stark, (2001).
Interpretation of Penetration Resistance for Back-analysis at Sites of
Previous Liquefaction. Seismological Research Letters, Volume 72, No. 1.
Scott M. Olson, Timothy D. Stark, William H. Walton, Gonzalo Castro,
(2000). 1907 Static Liquefaction Flow Failure of the North Dike of
Wachusett Dam. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Engineering.
Timothy D. Stark, Scott M. Olson, (1995). Liquefaction Resistance Using
CPT and Field Case Histories. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering.
Russel A. Green, Stephen F. Obermeier and Scott M. Olson, (2004). The
Role of Paleoliquefaction Studies in Performance-Based Earthquake
Engineering in the Central-Eastern United States. 13th World Conference
on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C. Cnada, August 1-6 2004,
Paper No. 1643.
Scott M. Olson, (2003). Strength Ratio-Based Liquefaction Analysis of
Sloping Ground. Proceedings of the 12th Panamerican Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, June 23-
26, Boston, MA, Paper No. 271.
Geotechnical Investigations & In-situ Testing
Zhou Yunxuan, (1992). Application of Radon Transforms to the Processing
of Airborne Geophysical Data. PhD Thesis, Delft university, Department
of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
Michael Gregory Smith, (1993). A Laboratory Study of the Marchetti
Dilatometer. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford, Keble College.
Michael G. Smith, Guy T. Houlsby, (1995). Interpretation of the
Marchetti Dilatometer in Clay, Volume 1. Proceedings of the 11th
European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering,
Copenhagen, 28 May - 1 June.
Raymond J. Krizek, (2004). Slurries in Geotechnical Engineering. The
12th Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University, College
Station, Texas.
G.T. Houlsby, C.P. Worth, (1989). The Influence of Soil Stiffness and
Lateral Stress on the Results of In-Situ Soil Tests. Proceedings of the
12th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation
Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 1.
Engineering Geology
Terry Engelder, Michael R. Gross, (1993). Curving Cross Joints and the
Lithospheric Stress Field in Eastern North America. Geology, Vol. 21,
pp. 817-820, September 1993.
Terry Engelder, (1994). Deviatoric Stressitis: A Virus Infecting the
Earth Science Community. EOS, Vol. 75, pp. 209-212.
Terry Engelder, (1994). Brittle Crack Propagation, Chaper 3.
Continental Tectonics, Oxford, Pergamon Press, pp. 43-52.
Terry Engelder, Mark P. Fischer, (1994). Influence of poroelastic
behavior on the magnitude of minimum horizontal stress, Sh, in
overpressured parts of Sedimentary Basins. Geology, Vol. 22, pp.
949-952, October 1994.
Terry Engelder, Suzanne D. Weedman, John T. Leftwich, (1994). The
Nature of High Fluid Pressure in Sedimentary Basins. Proceedings of
Workshop LXIII. The mechanical involvement of Fluids in Faulting, U.S.
Geological Survey Open-file Report 94-228, p. 138-
143.
Computational Geomechanics
Peter M. Byrne, Sung-Silk Park, Michael Beauty, Michael Sharp, Lenart
Gonzalez, Tarek Abdoun, (2004). Numerical Modeling of Dynamic
Centrifuge Tests. 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering,
Vancouver, B.C. Canada, August 1-6 2004, Paper NO. 3387.
Joao Willy Correa Rosa, Fabbryccio Akkazzha C.M. Cardoso, Keiiti Aki,
Henrique S. Malvar, Fredy A. Villaorduna Artola and Jose Wilson Correa
Rosa, (2001). Modelling Elastic Media with the Wavelet Transform.
Geophysics Journal International (2001) 146, 454-488.
Rafid I. Al-Khoury, (2002). Parameter Identification Technique for
Layered Systems. PhD Thesis, Delft University, Department of Civil
Engineering and Geosciences.
Martin Van Gelderen, (1991). The Geodetic Boundary Value Problem in two
Dimensions and its Iterative Solution. PhD Thesis, Delft University,
Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Netherlands Geodetic
Commission, Publications on Geodesy, New Series, Number 35.
R.B.J. Brinkgreve, (1994). Geomaterial Models and Numerical Analysis of
Softening. PhD Thesis, Delft University, Department of Civil
Engineering and Geosciences.
