| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations |
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Deep foundations -- piles and barrettes -- Uses and types of piles and pile groups -- Vertical pile load transfer mechanisms -- Failure load on piles: definitions, interpretation and criteria -- Establishment of a new failure load criterion for large-diameter bored piles and barrettes -- Analysis, design and parameters -- Dynamic formulae -- Design of rock-socketed piles -- Case studies: rock-socketed piles -- Pile instrumentation: a case study of a well-instrumented barrette in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong -- Case studies: 15 full-scale loading tests on barrettes in Hong Kong -- Case studies: bored piles in weathered materials in Hong Kong -- Settlement analysis of piles and pile groups -- Multi-propped deep excavations -- Stress paths in relation to a deep excavation -- Plastic geo-structural analysis -- Preliminary design for deep excavations (short course notes) -- Instrumentation: a case study of a multi-propped excavation at Lion Yard, Cambridge -- Lateral pressure of wet concrete in diaphragm walls -- Stress transfer and deformation mechanisms around diaphragm walls -- Effects of modelling soil non-linearity and wall installation on back-analysis of deep excavations in stiff clay -- Comparision of wall-installation-modelled (WIM) and wished-in-place (WIP) analyses with Mohr-Coulomb model -- Prediction of ground movements due to diaphragm wall installation -- The prediction and control of displacements around deep excavations in completely decomposed granite -- Bored and open-face tunnelling below cities -- Unsupported tunnels: theoretical assessment of the collapse of soil arches -- Modern tunnel construction techniques -- Principal design and construction requirements -- Case study: the Heathrow Express trial tunnel -- Finite-element modelling of multi-tunnel interactions and tunnelling effects on adjacent piles -- Effect of ground movements on buildlings -- Case study: effect of the Jubilee Line Extension on the Big Ben Clock Tower |
| Summary |
CD includes student editions of the OASYS software packages 'FREW' and 'Safe' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Soil-structure interaction.
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Foundations.
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Excavation.
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Tunnels.
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Soil-structure interaction -- Mathematics
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Foundations -- Mathematics
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Excavation -- Mathematics
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Tunnels -- Mathematics
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foundations (structural elements)
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excavation (process)
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tunnels.
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Excavation
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Foundations
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Soil-structure interaction
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Tunnels
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Tiefgründung
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Baugrube
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Tunnelbau
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Simons, N. E
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Menzies, Bruce Keith
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| ISBN |
9780727737069 |
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0727737066 |
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