Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Geotechnical Practice - Couverture rigide

Blight, Geoffrey E

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415621186 ISBN 13 : 9780415621182

Editeur : CRC Press, 2013

Synopsis

There are other books on unsaturated soil mechanics, but this book is different. In most climatic zones, rainfall varies during the year and the depth of the water table varies sympathetically. In applying unsaturated soil mechanics in practice, it is therefore important to realize and allow for the probability that soil will, either seasonally or occasionally, pass from the unsaturated to the saturated state and even from unsaturation to dryness. This is the only book that looks specifically at this essential practical aspect.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geoffrey Blight completed his Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and his PhD at Imperial College, London. There he carried out some of the earliest research on the mechanics of unsaturated soils, under the supervision of the legendary Alan Bishop. His early work, published jointly with Bishop and others in 1960, 1961 and 1963, provided data that is still being used by new generations of researchers on unsaturated soil behaviour. He soon became interested in the application of unsaturated soil mechanics to residual soils and mine waste and has published extensively in these areas. He has also applied unsaturated soil mechanics principles in related fields such as concrete and silo technology. He was a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering's Technical Committee on the Properties of Tropical and Residual Soils from 1982 to 1997 and served as Chairman from 1994 to 1997. He edited and co-authored the first (1997) edition of Mechanics of residual soils, which was produced during his Chairmanship. In addition to the second edition of Mechanics of residual soils (2012), he has also authored or co-authored the books: Assessing loads on silos and other bulk storage structures (2006), Geotechnical engineering for mine waste storage facilities (2010), Alkali-aggregate reaction and structural damage to concrete (2011), all published by CRC Press/Balkema.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415621186
• ISBN 13: 9780415621182
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 640
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• Personne responsable: non disponible