Geomechanics Books

New and Published Books

1. Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics

   Edited by Mario Manassero, Andrea Dominijanni, Sebastiano Foti, Guido Musso

   Environmental Geotechnics deals with a wide variety of applications, such as the characterization of polluted sites and landfill waste, the design of containment systems for subsoil pollutant control, radioactive waste disposal, geo-energy exploitation and bacteria-driven soil modification, among...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by CRC Press
2. Installation Effects in Geotechnical Engineering

   Edited by Michael A. Hicks, Jelke Dijkstra, Marti Lloret-Cabot, Minna Karstunen

   Installation effects in geotechnical engineering contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Installation Effects in Geotechnical Engineering (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 24-27 March 2013), the closing conference of GEO-INSTALL (FP7/2007-2013, PIAG-GA-2009-230638), an...

   Published March 4th 2013 by CRC Press
3. Shale Engineering

   Mechanics and Mechanisms

   By Mohammad Asef, Mohsen Farrokhrouz

   Shale makes up about three-fourths of drilled formations. Even though the engineering properties of shale have been studied for several decades, shale engineering is still prone to unexpected instabilities and delays, representing a serious problem for the petroleum, mining and civil engineering...

   Published February 13th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Analytic Methods in Geomechanics

   By Kam-tim Chau

   A multidisciplinary field, encompassing both geophysics and civil engineering, geomechanics deals with the deformation and failure process in geomaterials such as soil and rock. Although powerful numerical tools have been developed, analytical solutions still play an important role in solving...

   Published December 5th 2012 by CRC Press
5. Geosystems: Design Rules and Applications

   Edited by Adam Bezuijen, E.W. Vastenburg

   Geotextile encapsulated sand elements are three-dimensional systems manufactured from textile materials, non-woven materials or combinations of textile and non-woven materials that are filled with sand on-site. These systems are relatively new and the number of applications is growing in river and...

   Published November 13th 2012 by CRC Press
6. Geomechanical Processes during Underground Mining

   School of Underground Mining 2012

   Edited by Volodymyr Bondarenko, Iryna Kovalevs'ka, Mykhaylo Illiashov, Genadiy Pivnyak

   This volume deals with economic aspects of mining companies’ development strategies, various mineral deposits development techniques, imitational modeling of mine workings with rock massif, methane extraction technologies during coal mining, geomechanical processes during plow mining, mining...

   Published September 2nd 2012 by CRC Press
7. Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials

   Principles and Applications

   By Teruo Nakai

   Written by a veteran geotechnical engineer with a long record of research discoveries, Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: Principles and Applications presents a simple and unified approach to modeling various features of geomaterials in general stress systems. The book discusses the...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by CRC Press
8. Computational Modeling of Multiphase Geomaterials

   By Fusao Oka, Sayuri Kimoto

   Computational Modeling of Multiphase Geomaterials discusses how numerical methods play a very important role in geotechnical engineering and in the related activity of computational geotechnics. It shows how numerical methods and constitutive modeling can help predict the behavior of geomaterials...

   Published July 4th 2012 by CRC Press
9. Shaking the Foundations of Geo-engineering Education

   Edited by Bryan McCabe, Marina Pantazidou, Declan Phillips

   This book comprises the proceedings of the international conference Shaking the Foundations of Geo-engineering Education (NUI Galway, Ireland, 4-6 July 2012), a major initiative of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee (TC306) on...

   Published June 11th 2012 by CRC Press
10. Innovative Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics

    Edited by Luis Ribeiro e Sousa, Eurípedes Vargas Jr., M.M. Fernandes, Roberto Azevedo

    Since the 1990s five books on ‘Applications of Computational Mechanics in Geotechnical Engineering’ have been published. Innovative Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics is the 6th and final book in this series, and contains papers written by leading experts on computational mechanics. The book...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by CRC Press