Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering

A practical guide to real-time streamflow forecasting. It provides a description of a coupled stochastic and physically-based flow routing method and its practical applications. It teaches hydrology and civil engineering students and water-resources practitioners the physical forecasting model...

A practical guide to real-time streamflow forecasting, this book provides a rigorous description of a coupled stochastic and physically based flow routing method and its practical applications. Providing real-life case examples and problem listings, the book teaches hydrology and civil engineering s..

When it comes to using reinforcements to grant better mechanical performance to soils, geosynthetics, one of the newest groups of building materials, have become mandatory in almost all works of infrastructure, draining applications, waterproofing, paving, erosion control and soil reinforcement...

Focuses on topics that received little attention until now, such as economic aspects of disasters, planning of land use as a mitigation tool, risk perception, and environmental risk assessment of pollutants, plants, and new substances introduced in the market. This book is of interest to scientists ..

Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering collects 200 papers presented at the European Rock Mechanics Symposium EUROCK 2010, covering recent developments in rock mechanics. Topics include: rock mechanics theory, rock dynamics and rate dependent behaviour, laboratory and field test techn..

This cross-disciplinary work offers an exceptionally relevant examination of those aspects of earth science dealing with seismic behavior of fractured media. It delivers a lucid exploration of rock mechanics, examining the strengths and weakness of structures beneath the earth’s immediate surface. D..

Includes papers and special lectures from the 3rd International Workshop on Volcanic Rocks, 'Rock Mechanics and Geo-Engineering in Volcanic Environments', which was held within the framework of the Congress 'Cities on Volcanoes6-Tenerife 2010' (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, 31 May-4 June 2010)..

A comprehensive collection of the most relevant topics related to rock mechanics and geo-engineering in volcanic environments. The book includes the geomechanical characterization of volcanic materials, the instability of volcanic islands, slope stability, large landslides and collapse phenomena, ge..