Renato Lancellotta

Geotechnical Engineering

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This rigorous textbook covers applied mechanics, testing and experimentation, and methods for observing real structures. It includes classic soil mechanics topics such as boundary value problems and serviceability of structures and extends into the principles of continuum mechanics, critical state theory and innovative techniques such as seismic methods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780415420044
• ISBN-10: 0415420040
• Artikelnr.: 22850905

Autorenporträt

Renato Lancellotta is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Director of the Geotechnical Laboratory and has been since 1990 Head of the Ph.D. Programme on Geotechnical Engineering at the Technical University of Torino, Italy. He was awarded the Bishop Research Medal (Institution of Civil Engineers, London) in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nature and Composition of Soils 2. Principles of Continuum Mechanics 3.
Constitutive Models 4. The Porous Medium 5. Mechanical Behaviour of Soils
6. Flow in Porous Media 7. In Situ Investigations 8. The Collapse of Soil
Structures 9. Performance and Serviceability of Structures