Charles Wang Wai Ng, Bruce Menzies

Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analytical and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art book examines the mechanics and engineering of unsaturated soils, as well as explaining the laboratory and field testing and research that are the logical basis of this modern approach to safe construction in these hazardous geomaterials; putting them into a logical framework for civil engineering and design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 712
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1197g
• ISBN-13: 9780415436793
• ISBN-10: 0415436796
• Artikelnr.: 22895025

Autorenporträt

Charles W.W. Ng has published widely on the behaviour of unsaturated soils and slopes, on applications of centrifuge modelling and on the soil-structure engineering of piles, barrettes, tunnels and deep excavations. He is Chair Professor and Associate Vice-President for Research and Development at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; and President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2017-2021). Bruce Menzies founded the Queens Award-winning company, Global Digital Systems Ltd (GDS), that pioneered the commercial availability of computer-controlled soil and rock testing systems for geotechnical engineers. He invented the GDS digital pressure controller used for pressure regulation and volume change measurement in soil and rock mechanics laboratories. He has co-authored seven books on soil mechanics and geology, some of which have been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and Malay. He co-founded Predict Ability Ltd (PAL) that formulates financial risk metrics for the impact of climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Physical and Flow Characteristics of Unsaturated Soils 1. Basic
Physics, Phases and Stress State Variables 2. Measurement and Control of
Suction: Methods and Applications 3. Flow Laws, Seepage and State-Dependent
Soil-Water Characteristics Part 2: Collapse, Swelling, Strength and
Stiffness of Unsaturated Soils 4. Collapse and Swelling Caused by Wetting
5. Measurement of Shear Strength and Shear Behaviour of Unsaturated Soils
6. Measurement of Shear Stiffness Part 3: State-Dependent Elasto-Plastic
Modelling of Unsaturated Soils 7. A State-Dependent Elasto-Plastic Critical
State-Based Constitutive Model Part 4: Field Trials and Numerical Studies
in Slope Engineering of Unsaturated Soils 8. Instrumentation and
Performance: A Case Study in Slope Engineering 9. Engineering Applications
for Slope Stability