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    Geoengineer.org Newsletter Issue #54
    A monthly publication of Geoengineer.org website
    June 2009

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    Online Geoengineering Library

    A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 1,508 different resources in 21 sections).

    New Additions:

    Soil Mechanics

    Sai K. Vanapalli, Del G. Fredlund, Dennis E. Pufahl, (1996). The Relationship Between the Soil-Water Characteristic Curve and the Unsaturated Shear Strength of a Compacted Glacial Till. The American Society for Testing and Materials.

    M. Al-Mukhtar, N. Belanteur, D. Tessier, S.K. Vanapalli, (1996). The Fabric of a Clay Soil under controlled Mechanical and Hydraulic Stress States. Applied Clay Science 11 (1996) 99-115. Elsevier Science B.V.

    S.K. Vanapalli, J.P. Lobbezoo, (2002). A Normalized Function for Predicting the Coefficient Permeability of Unsaturated Soils. 3rd International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Recife, Brazil, ed. J.F.T. Juca et al., Balkema Publishers, pp. 839-844.

    R.M. Khanzode, D.G. Fredlund, S.K. Vanapalli, (2000). A New Test Procedure to Measure the Soil-Water Characteristic Curves using a Small-Scale Centrifuge. Asian Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT - ASIA 2000) from Theory to Practice.

    Rock Mechanics

    James H. Dieterich, Brian D. Kilgore, (1996). Imaging Surface Contacts: Power Law Contact Distributions and Contact Stresses in Quartz, Calcite, Glass and Acrylic Plastic. Tectonophysics 256 (1996) 219- 239.Elsevier Science B.V.

    David A. Lockner, Nicholas M. Beeler, (2002). Rock Failure and Earthquakes. International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Vol. 81A. International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI).

    J.A. Ten Cate, J. Duran, and T.J. Shankland, (2002). Nonlinearity and Slow Dynamics in Rocks: Response to Changes of Temperature and Humidity. Nonlinear Acoustics at the Beginning of the 21st Century edited by O.V. Rudenko and O.A. Sapozhnikov (Faculty of Physics, MSU, Moscow, 2002) Vol. 2, pp. 767-770.

    K.E.-A. Van Den Abeele, J. Carmeliet, P. A. Johnson, B. Zinszner, (2002). Influence of Water Saturation on the Nonlinear Elastic Mesoscopic Response in Earth Materials and the Implications to the Mechanism of Nonlinearity. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 107, No. B6. The American Geophysical Union.

    Foundation Design

    Y.-J. Chen & F.H. Kulhawy, (1994). Case History Evaluation of Behavior of Drilled Shafts Under Axial & Lateral Loading. Report No. TR-104601. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Palo Alto, California.

    N.J. Cho & F.H. Kulhawy, (1995). Experimental Study of Undrained Behavior of Drilled Shafts During Static & Cyclic Inclined Loading. Report No. TR-104999. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Palo Alto, California.

    K.K. Phoon, F.H. Kulhawy & M.D. Grigoriu, (1995). Reliability-Based Design of Foundations for Transmission Line Structures. Report No. TR-105000. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Palo Alto, California.

    F.H. Kulhawy & C.H. Trautmann, (1995). Summary of Transmission Line Structure Foundation Research. Report No. TR-105206. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Palo Alto, California.

    Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Dynamics

    Zhuang Ying-chun, Xie Kang-he, (2003). Study on One- Dimensional Consolidation of Soil under Cyclic Loading and with Varied Compressibility. Journal of Zhejiang University Science.

    A. Niemunis, T. Wichtmann, Th. Triantafyllidis, (2003). Compaction of Freshly Pluviated Granulates under Uniaxial and Multiaxial Cyclic Loading. XIIIth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: Geotechnical problems with man-made and man-influenced grounds, (Eds. Vanicek et al.), Vol. 1, pp. 855-860 Prague.

    Th. Triantafyllidis, T. Wichtmann, A. Niemunis, (2003). Explicit Accumulation Model for Granular Materials under Multiaxial Cyclic Loading. Proceedings of 6th international workshop on mathematical methods n scattering theory and biomedical engineering. Ioannina, Greece.

    T. Wichtmann, A. Niemunis & Th. Triantafyllidis, (2004). Strain Accumulation in Sand due to Drained Uniaxial Cyclic Loading. International Conference on Cyclic Behaviour of Soils and Liquefaction Phenomena (CBS04), Bochum, pp. 33-247.

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