Download or read book Design and Performance of Embankments on Very Soft Soils written by Marcio de Souza S. Almeida and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embankment construction projects on very soft soil often give rise to serious problems. This volume on geotechnics and soft soil engineering therefore treats all phases of the design and construction process exhaustively, from the first investigation step to the monitoring of constructed work. The book presents the development concepts necessary fo
Download or read book Design and Performance of Embankments on Very Soft Soils written by Márcio S. S. Almeida and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underwater Embankments on Soft Soil written by William F. Van Impe and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground improvement is an established technique in foundation engineering. In recent decades, modern methods of ground improvement have utilised explosives, impact energy, thermal treatment of the soil, vacuum consolidation, vibratory compaction technologies, stabilization and solidification of soft soils, as well as combined systems of ingenious gr
Download or read book Design and Performance of Embankments on Very Soft Soils written by Márcio de Souza S. Almeida and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embankment construction projects on very soft soil often give rise to serious problems. This volume on geotechnics and soft soil engineering therefore treats all phases of the design and construction process exhaustively, from the first investigation step to the monitoring of constructed work. The book presents the development concepts necessary for the project stages and discusses in great detail construction methods, displacement estimations, stability analyses, monitoring, and various other aspects involved. Extensive attention is furthermore paid to the application of geosynthetics as a tool to improve the stability of soft soils and embankments. Including various tables and practical data for many geographical areas in the world, this reference volume is essential reading for engineers and researchers in geotechnical engineering, construction, and related disciplines.
Download or read book New Techniques on Soft Soils written by Márcio Almeida and published by Oficina de Textos. This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Techniques on Soft Soils is a compilation of the lectures and keynote lectures presented at the Symposium on New Techniques for Design and Construction in Soft Clays held in Guarujá, Brazil, between May 22 and 23, 2010. The book covers a wide range of updated techniques on several topics, such as site investigation, vertical drains, surcharge, piled embankment, granular piles, deep mixing, monitoring and performance.
Download or read book Geosynthetic Encased Columns for Soft Soil Improvement written by Márcio Almeida and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geosynthetic encased column (GEC) is a relatively recent method developed for soft soil improvement. The method was firstly introduced as a concept in the 1980s and first practical applications started in the 1990s. GECs have been widely used in some parts of the world for the last three decades. However, there is no book in the literature summarizing the knowledge accumulated during this period in relation to this soft ground improvement technique. The purpose of this book is to provide readers with the GEC fundamentals and practical applications. Chapter 1 presents the general principles of this ground improvement technique including the methods used for GEC installation and how the material properties may be selected. Chapter 2 presents the design methods, thus settlement calculations by means of analytical methods and stability calculations by limit equilibrium methods are explained in detail. Chapter 3 presents calculation examples illustrating the usual steps to be done for both service limit state and ultimate limit state designs. Then field performances exemplifying practical applications of the GEC technique are presented in Chapter 4 for some case histories. Following numerical analyses, often used in design to complement analytical methods, are presented in Chapter 5. Annexes I and II at the end contain the charts developed to perform settlement calculations. The book combines the experiences of four authors with different academic and industry backgrounds to describe GEC design and performance. It is aimed at civil engineers in general, particularly geotechnical engineers, either working in design or in practice, at graduate students, and at senior undergraduate students.
Download or read book Soft Clay Engineering and Ground Improvement written by Jay Ameratunga and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft Clay Engineering and Ground Improvement covers the design and implementation of ground improvement techniques as applicable to soft clays. This particular subject poses major geotechnical challenges in civil engineering. Not only civil engineers, but planners, architects, consultants and contractors are now aware what soft soils are and the risks associated with development of such areas. The book is designed as a reference and useful tool for those in the industry, both to consultants and contractors. It also benefits researchers and academics working on ground improvement of soft soils, and serves as an excellent overview for postgraduates. University lecturers are beginning to incorporate more ground improvement topics into their curricula, and this text would be ideal for short courses for practicing engineers. It includes several examples to assist a newcomer to carry out preliminary designs. The three authors, each with dozens of years of experience, have witnessed and participated in the rapid evolvement of ground improvement in soft soils. In addition, top-tier professionals who deal with soft clays and ground improvement on a daily basis have contributed, providing their expertise in dealing with real-world problems and practical solutions.
Download or read book Embankments on Organic Soils written by J. Hartlén and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-11-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more civil engineering constructions are being built on soft soils. As areas with better foundations are used up the necessity to be able to build structures on soft soils increases. The most troublesome of soft soils are organic soils due mainly to their high compressibility (much higher than in mineral soils), and also their very low shear strength. The large diversity of organic soils with respect to their origin as well as their properties make classification, testing, and engineering prediction of behaviour, very difficult. For this reason, engineers try, in general, to avoid constructing on deep layers of organic soils. If forced, by necessity, to do so, they manage with light structures e.g. embankments or low buildings. The authors of this book have been involved in a joint research project on the testing of embankments on organic soils. This was carried out in the North-Western part of Poland by the Swedish Geotechnical Institute and the Department of Geotechnics of Warsaw Agricultural University. The results of their research is presented in this new book and provides a valuable insight into this growing area in the field of engineering geology.
Download or read book A Case Study on the Performance of Embankments on Treated Soft Ground written by Isabella Santini Batista and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure written by Ravi Sundaram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure (ISGTI 2018). The research papers cover geotechnical interventions for the diverse fields of policy formulation, design, implementation, operation and management of the different modes of travel, namely road, air, rail and waterways. This book will be of interest to academic and industry researchers working in transportation geotechnics, as also to practicing engineers, policy makers, and civil agencies.
Download or read book Design of Embankments on Soft Soil written by Robert C. Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soft Ground Technology written by American Society of Civil Engineers. Geo-Institute and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GSP 112 contains 37 papers representing the state of the practice in soft ground engineering presented at the Soft Ground Technology Conference, held in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, May 28-June 2, 2000.
Download or read book Design Considerations written by Pamela J. Langston and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numerical Modelling of Embankments on Soft Soils written by Harald Krenn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design of embankments on soft soils requires a reliable estimate of deformations and stability of the embankment. Natural soft soils are structured materials, and as a consequence they exhibit anisotropy in their stress-strain-strength behaviour. The complex nature of soft soil makes it very difficult for designers to estimate deformations during construction and over time. The properties of very soft clays, silts and organic soils can be improved with deep mixing. Conventional design methods are very limited and do not account for the complex stress-strain-strength behaviour of the soft soil and/or the deep mixed soil. Numerical techniques, such as the finite element method provide a powerful tool, given the complex stress-strain-strength behaviour of the soft soil and/or the deep mixed material can be taken into account using advanced constitutive models. The aim of the thesis is to investigate through 2D and 3D numerical simulations using advanced constitutive models the behaviour of embankments constructed on soft clays. In addition to embankments constructed on natural soils, embankments on deep mixed columns are studied. Simulations investigate the effect of anisotropy, apparent interparticle bonding and destructuration on the predicted response. It was found that ignoring anisotropy and destructuration leads to underprediction of surface settlements and horizontal displacements. However, although the effect of anisotropy was more pronounced than the effect of destructuration, the latter is needed to represent the measured remoulded and natural undrained strength in time. Constitutive models with a hyperbolic stress-strain relationship give a good representation of the non-linear behaviour of deep mixed material. 3D simulations of embankments on deep mixed columns showed that with increasing column spacing, differential settlements occur between column and soil. The results furthermore demonstrate that floating columns can be very effective in settlement reduction.
Download or read book Problematic Soils written by Ian Jefferson and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problematic soils brings together in one volume a collection of papers presented at the Problematic Soils symposium, organised by East Midlands Geotechnical Group of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The papers discuss the behaviour and characteristics of problematic soils (particularly those found in the UK), and they also offer guidance on possible treatment techniques that could be applied for their successful engineering.The proceedings of this symposium are split into three sections.
Download or read book Soft Soil Engineering written by A.K.L. Kwong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains seven keynote lectures and over 100 technical contributions by scientists, researchers, engineers and students from more than 25 countries and regions worldwide on the subject of soft soil engineering.
Download or read book Geosynthetics Asia 1997 written by C.V.J. Varma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text comprises of 57 papers on: roads, railways and embankments; reinforced slopes and retaining walls; hydraulic applications; environmental applications; geosynthetic testing; and IGS chapter reports.
