The Essence of Geotechnical Engineering: 60 years of Geotechnique

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7277-3536-2
Verlag: Institution of Civil Engineers

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

Includes Géotechnique 50 CD FREE: Search the 1948-2001 archives by full text or author, plus all papers from 2000-2001 in full.
This book marks the 60th anniversary of ICE's world leading journal, Géotechnique. It includes a set of seminal papers published in Géotechnique over the past 60 years as well as all the papers from the specially commissioned June 2008 Diamond Jubilee issue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkinson, John

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Boden- und Felsmechanik, Geotechnik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geotechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Editorial

Géotechnique: Past, present and future

Géotechnique 1948–2008: more than just a journal
The founders of Géotechnique
Geotechnical publications before Géotechnique
Geotechnics: the next 60 years
Contributions to Géotechnique 1948–2008

Foundation engineering
Retaining structures
Slope stability and embankment dams
Tunnelling
Ground improvement
Constitutive and numerical modelling
Physical modelling
Laboratory and field testing
Soil behaviour
Groundwater
Soil science and interdisciplinary aspects of geotechnical engineering
Engineering geology, rock mechanics and rock engineering
Dynamics
Seminal papers and discussion: 1950–1990

The measurement of the shear strength of soils
The sensitivity of clays
The movement and distribution of water in soils
The use of the slip circle in the stability analysis of slopes
Stability of strutted excavations in clay
On the yielding of soils
A discrete numerical model for granular assemblies
A computer model for the analysis of ground movements in London Clay
A constitutive model for partially saturated soils