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Geoenvironmental Engineering
This new book contains the proceedings of the 4th Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Association and Cardiff University’s School of Engineering, held in Stratford-Upon-Avon in June 2004. The theme of the conference was Integrated Management of Groundwater and Contaminated Land. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers; grouped according to the sessions under which they were presented at the conference. Issues associated with Geoenvironmental Engineering continue to be a major preoccupation for Governments, public and private organisations and the general community around the world. The conference brought together people working in industry, academia and the public sector to discuss the latest ideas and developments in Geoenvironmental Engineering and related fields. The papers in these proceedings reflect the work being undertaken across the discipline. This volume is an indispensable source of information on current research and practice in the field of integrated management of groundwater and contaminated land.
Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics
This special issue collects selected contributions (excluding general lectures) of a Symposium on "Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics", which took place at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, from May 29th to June 1st, 2018. The Symposium provided an opportunity to enhance the scientific debate on the construction of mathematical models for the description of the physical behaviour of soils, as well as on the suggestions provided by the micro-mechanical observation of the matter. The focus was on the comparison between the appropriateness of models and the need of mathematics to obtain rigorous results, which involves know-how from applied mathematical physics, geotechnical engineering and mechanics of solids. The contributions were selected by the Editors and the other Members of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium: Gianfranco Capriz (Pisa, Roma), Claudio di Prisco (Milan), Wolfgang Ehlers (Stuttgart), James T. Jenkins (Cornell), Stefan Luding (Twente), David Muir Wood (Dundee), Kenichi Soga (Berkeley).
The Civil Engineering Handbook
First published in 1995, the award-winning Civil Engineering Handbook soon became known as the field's definitive reference. To retain its standing as a complete, authoritative resource, the editors have incorporated into this edition the many changes in techniques, tools, and materials that over the last seven years have found their way into civil
Bridges and More
Bridges and More takes the reader from the early years of Civil Engineering when Purdue's campus consisted of a smattering of red brick buildings surrounded by grassy meadows and roads flanked by white, wooden fences to today's state-of-the-art facilities such as the Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research and the online hub for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).The highly illustrated book touches on major milestones in Purdue Civil Engineering history from Road School, to the Ross Summer Surveying Camp, to Purdue's involvement in world landmarks such as the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Tower of Pisa. Often, Purdue Civil Engineers are public servants, evolving research that helps to prevent disasters like building collapses and bridge failures. Bridges and More honors Purdue's School of Civil Engineering with historic images and an appealing account of 125 years of education, research and a profession that is, as the title suggests, about so much more than bridges.
Geotechnical Fundamentals for Addressing New World Challenges
This single-volume thoroughly summarizes advances in the past several decades and emerging challenges in fundamental research in geotechnical engineering. These fundamental research frontiers are critically reviewed and described in details in lights of four grand challenges our society faces: climate adaptation, urban sustainability, energy and material resources, and global water resources. The specific areas critically reviewed, carefully examined, and envisioned are: sensing and measurement, soil properties and their physics roots, multiscale and multiphysics processes in soil, geochemical processes for resilient and sustainable geosystems, biological processes in geotechnics, unsaturated soil mechanics, coupled flow processes in soil, thermal processes in geotechnical engineering, and rock mechanics in the 21st century.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine: Rising Stars 2023
We are delighted to present the 2023 Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine “Rising Stars” article collection. This collection showcases the high-quality work of internationally recognized researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. All Rising Star researchers were individually nominated by the Chief Editors of the Journal in recognition of their potential to influence the future directions in their respective fields. The work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of cardiovascular medicine, including the elucidation of fundamental biology, the development of novel diagnostics or therapeutics, computational modelling approaches, and bioengineering strategies for regeneration.
Identification of Low-Organic-Content Soils
From a geotechnical engineering perspective, the presence of organic matter in soils can often be a concern, because of its negative impact on many mechanical properties and its potential interference with soil stabilization reactions. For this reason, many regulating agencies have strict limits on the maximum allowable organic content in subgrade soils and backfills, requiring that it fall below a threshold value in the 2 %-7 % range. Methods currently used in practice for the identification of organic soils and for the quantification of organic matter have shortcomings when applied to soils with organic matter content less than ~10 %-15 %. For such soils, the loss on ignition often overest...
Verification of the Enhanced Integrated Climatic Module Soil Subgrade Input Parameters in the MEPDG
At the beginning of 2009, INDOT adopted the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) method to study the tong-term pavement performance. The implementation of this new design approach led to difficulties for the pavement to pass the INDOT performance criteria; in particular pavement roughness (IRI) when A-6 or A-7-6 soils were considered as subgrade. This study focuses on investigating the influence of the soil input parameters in the Enhanced Integrated Climatic Model (EICM) on the prediction of the soil resilient modulus (MR) in the MEPDG. A total of four sites located around the state of Indiana are used to propose/validate the observations and conclusions made in the research....
Ground Modification and Seismic Mitigation
GSP 152 contains 58 papers on ground modification for seismic mitigation presented at the GeoShanghai Conference, held in Shanghai, China, June 6-8, 2006.
Combined Resonant Column and Cyclic Triaxial Tests for Measuring Undrained Shear Modulus Reduction of Sand With Plastic Fines
This paper investigates the undrained shear stiffness of sand-bentonite specimens (with 0 %, 3 %, and 5 % bentonite by dry mass of the sand) prepared at the same skeleton void ratio (Drsk = 35 % to 40 %) using a dry pluviation technique. The experimental program consisted of (1) small strain tests using a resonant column apparatus and (2) large strain tests using a cyclic triaxial apparatus. The resonant column tests were performed at three confining stress levels (50, 100, and 193 kPa) under drained and undrained conditions. A comparison of the shear modulus reduction with shear strains for both drained and undrained conditions is presented; the effects of changes in effective stresses and ...
