Bücher der Reihe Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering

Landslides and debris flows belong to the most dangerous natural hazards in many parts of the world. Despite intensive research, these events continue to result in human suffering, property losses, and environmental degradation every year. Better understanding of the mechanisms and processes of landslides and debris flows will help make reliable predictions, develop mitigation strategies and reduce vulnerability of infrastructure.This book presents contributions to the workshop on Recent Developments in the Analysis, Monitoring and Forecast of Landslides and Debris Flow, in Vienna, Austria, September 9, 2013. The contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics from material behavior, physical modelling over numerical simulation to applications and case studies. The workshop is a joint event of three research projects funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program: MUMOLADE (Multiscale modelling of landslides and debris flows, www.mumolade.com), REVENUES (Numerical Analysis of Slopes with Vegetations, http://www.revenues-eu.com) and HYDRODRIL (Integrated Risk Assessment of Hydrologically-Driven Landslides, www.boku.ac.at/igt/).

This volume contains a sampling of enlarged versions of papers presented at the International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradations in Geomaterials (IWBDG 2008). These papers capture the state-of-the-art in geomechanics, from fundamentals to applications.

Earthquake and tsunami disasters have been increasing rapidly and globally in the last quarter-century. The purpose of this book is to provide essential knowledge and information on the mitigation of earthquakes and tsunamis for graduate students, young researchers, and geotechnical engineers.

This state-of-the-art book contains all results and papers of the International Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics at Stanford University Campus, June 23-25, 2010.

This volume contains papers presented at the 3rd Sino-German Conference, Underground Storage of CO2 and Energy. It details different perspectives on recent research to reduce greenhouse emissions while ensuring a sufficient supply of clean energy.

This book presents experimental and numerical investigations of confined granular flow of bulk solids in silos. It describes them with numerical FE models verified by experimental results.

Significant advancements in the experimental analysis of soils and shales have been achieved during the last few decades. Outstanding progress in the field has led to the theoretical development of geomechanical theories and important engineering applications. This book provides the reader with an overview of recent advances in a variety of advanced experimental techniques and results for the analysis of the behaviour of geomaterials under multiphysical testing conditions. Modern trends in experimental geomechanics for soils and shales are discussed, including testing materials in variably saturated conditions, non-isothermal experiments, micro-scale investigations and image analysis techniques. Six theme papers from leading researchers in experimental geomechanics are also included.This book is intended for postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners in fields where multiphysical testing of soils and shales plays a fundamental role, such as unsaturated soil and rock mechanics, petroleum engineering, nuclear waste storage engineering, unconventional energy resources and CO2 geological sequestration.

The Second International Symposium on Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials: Advances and New Applications (IS-Model 2012), is to be held in Beijing, China, during October 15-16, 2012.

Presents contributions to the 9th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials held in Porquerolles, France, May 23-26, 2011. This book gathers a series of manuscripts by international scholars reflecting various trends in theoretical and experimental research in geomechanics.

In 2D and 3D simulations of fibrous concrete specimens under uniaxial tension, the effect of the fibre volume, fibre distribution, fibre orientation, fibre length, fibrous bond strength and specimen size on both the stress-strain curve and fracture process was carefully analyzed.

This book presents a detailed blueprint for developing experimental facilities necessary to control the behavior of piles during installation and loading. There is sufficient detail to allow readers to duplicate or modify the design to suit their own needs.

This book presents a new method for solving geomechanical problems, one that explicitly takes into account deformation and fractures of soils, which create important effects, but are neglected in classical approaches.

This book offers a detailed analysis of a quasi-static fracture process in concrete and reinforced concrete by means of constitutive models formulated within continuum mechanics, using both continuous and discontinuous modeling approaches.

Rigidly Framed Earth Retaining Structures

Arguing that transparent synthetic materials can be used to study 3-D deformation and flow problems in natural soils, this book presents the geotechnical behavior of many families of transparent soils that can be combined to meet model-test requirements.

This conference proceedings presents the research papers in the field of mine planning and mining equipment including themes such as mine automation, rock mechanics, drilling, blasting, tunnelling and excavation engineering.

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.

This well-structured book presents numerical simulations of shear localization in granular materials. The book uses a hypoplastic constitutive model enhanced by a characteristic length of the micro-structure in the form of a mean grain diameter.

These proceedings address the latest developments in information communication and technologies for geo-engineering. The 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Geo-Engineering (ICITG 2019), held in Guimarães, Portugal, follows the previous successful installments of this conference series in Durham (2014) and Shanghai (2010). The respective chapters cover the following: Use of information and communications technologies Big data and databases Data mining and data science Imaging technologies Building information modelling applied to geo-structures Artificial intelligence Smart geomaterials and intelligent construction Sensors and monitoring Asset management Case studies on design, construction and maintenanceGiven its broad range of coverage, the book will benefit students, educators, researchers and professional practitioners alike, encouraging these readers to help take the geo-engineering community into the digital age

This book contains the scientific contributions to the 11th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials (IWBDG) held in Limassol-Cyprus, May 21-25, 2017.

This book compiles the second part of contributions to the China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering held 13.-16. August 2018 in Vienna, Austria. About 400 papers from 35 countries cover virtually all areas of geotechnical engineering and make this conference a truly international event. The contributions are grouped into thirteen special sessions and provide an overview of the geoengineering research and practice in China, Europe and the world: · Constitutive model· Micro-macro relationship· Numerical simulation· Laboratory testing· Geotechnical monitoring, instrumentation and field test· Foundation engineering· Underground construction· Environmental geotechnics· New geomaterials and ground improvement· Cold regions geotechnical engineering· Geohazards - risk assessment, mitigation and prevention· Unsaturated soils and energy geotechnics· Geotechnics in transportation, structural and hydraulic Engineering

This book compiles the first part of contributions to the China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering held 13.-16. August 2016 in Vienna, Austria. About 400 papers from 35 countries cover virtually all areas of geotechnical engineering and make this conference a truly international event. The contributions are grouped into thirteen special sessions and provide an overview of the geoengineering research and practice in China, Europe and the world: · Constitutive model· Micro-macro relationship· Numerical simulation· Laboratory testing· Geotechnical monitoring, instrumentation and field test· Foundation engineering· Underground construction· Environmental geotechnics· New geomaterials and ground improvement· Cold regions geotechnical engineering· Geohazards - risk assessment, mitigation and prevention· Unsaturated soils and energy geotechnics· Geotechnics in transportation, structural and hydraulic Engineering

This fascinating new book examines the issues of earthquake geotechnical engineering in a comprehensive way.

This proceedings book gathers contributions presented at the First International Conference on Embankment Dams (1st ICED, Beijing, 5-7 June 2020), which was the inaugural conference of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee TC210 on Embankment Dams.

This book compiles the first part of contributions to the China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering held 13.-16. August 2016 in Vienna, Austria. About 400 papers from 35 countries cover virtually all areas of geotechnical engineering and make this conference a truly international event. The contributions are grouped into thirteen special sessions and provide an overview of the geoengineering research and practice in China, Europe and the world: · Constitutive model· Micro-macro relationship· Numerical simulation· Laboratory testing· Geotechnical monitoring, instrumentation and field test· Foundation engineering· Underground construction· Environmental geotechnics· New geomaterials and ground improvement· Cold regions geotechnical engineering· Geohazards - risk assessment, mitigation and prevention· Unsaturated soils and energy geotechnics· Geotechnics in transportation, structural and hydraulic Engineering