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Site Management for Engineers
Author(s): Trevor Holroyd, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 06 May 1999
ISBN: 9780727727367
Stock level: Low stock
£46.75
Newly qualified engineers often find that the skills required when they enter the workplace are different from the skills they learnt throughout their education and training. This may result in them feeling disadvantaged in a world of work which is strictly commercial. This book presents, in concise and clear terms, the various aspects of site mana
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Vibration of Solids and Structures Under Moving Loads
Author(s): Ladislav Fryba, Research Institute of Transport, Prague
Publication date: 01 May 1999
ISBN: 9780727735393
Stock level: Low stock
£88.25
This book analyses the effects of moving loads on elastic and inelastic solids, elements and parts of structures and on elastic media, namely beams, continuous beams, beams on elastic foundations, rigid-plastic beams and thin-walled beams, frames, arches, strings, plates elastic spaces and half spaces etc. Vibrations in these structures are produce
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The Philosophy of Risk
Author(s): John C Chicken, Consultant and Tamar Posner, Safety Assessment Federation
Publication date: 15 April 1999
ISBN: 9780727726667
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
This book gives decision-makers a logical overall philosophy of risk that will enable them to make sound and consistently defensible decisions about the acceptability of risk. The authors examine a variety of activities - as diverse as major industrial projects and medicine, finance and sport, transport and manufacturing - to identify the factors c
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Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering: Volume One - Theory
Author(s): D. M. Potts and L. Zdravkovic, Imperial College
Publication date: 09 April 1999
ISBN: 9780727727534
Stock level: Low stock
£135.25
This comprehensive new two-volume work provides the reader with a detailed insight into the use of the finite element method in geotechnical engineering. As specialist knowledge required to perform geotechnical finite element analysis is not normally part of a single engineering degree course, this lucid work will prove invaluable. It brings togeth
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Effective Training for Civil Engineers, 2nd edition
Author(s): H Macdonald Steels, Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 01 February 1999
ISBN: 9780727727091
Stock level: Low stock
£32.50
The demand for a second edition of this highly practical book proves that there remains a need for answers to the most frequently asked questions by trainees and their mentors throughout the construction industry, which still seems reluctant to train employees for any role apart from the one originally envisaged for them. Constant restructuring and
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Strategic Procurement in Construction
Author(s): Andrew Cox
Publication date: 01 May 1998
ISBN: 9780727725998
Stock level: Low stock
£44.50
This book explores the appropriateness of procurement strategies in certain situations. It argues that organisations should develop strategically aligned supply chains to deliver predictable and sustained performance improvements and asserts that the assumption that one approach is appropriate to manage all cirumstances is flawed.It provides a fram
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Introduction to Cable Roof Structures, 2nd edition
Author(s): H A Buchholdt, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 15 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727726247
Stock level: Low stock
£64.50
The second edition of this book provides structural engineers with a concise introduction to the architectural, structural and technological aspects of cable roofs, and supplies sufficient information for engineers to carry out their own designs. The improved methods for generating wind and earthquake histories have been included as the trend in mo
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Concrete in Coastal Structures
Author(s): Edited by Richard T L Allen
Publication date: 09 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727736376
Stock level: Low stock
£76.00
Many types of structure are subject to maritime conditions, and construction and maintenance of coastal structures is a major part of the construction workload of any country bordering the sea. This book is a comprehensive source of information for all who are concerned with the commissioning, design, construction or maintenance of concrete structu
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Structural Appraisal of Iron Framed Textile Mills: ICE Design and Practice Guide
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 09 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727727138
Stock level: Low stock
£20.90
This guide begins with a broad overview of mill building structures and their development, illustrated with examples of mill construction details. It then moves on to discuss measures that may be needed to ensure compliance with modern Building Regulations. Historical and modern evidence is presented to show that the robustness of these old buildin
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Geotechnical Engineering of Landfills
Author(s): N Dixon, Nottingham Trent University, E J Murray, Murray Rix Geotechnical and D R V Jones, Golder Associates (UK)
Publication date: 08 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727727084
Stock level: Low stock
£76.25
Geotechnical engineering of landfills is a symposium designed to provide a forum for the presentation of recent developments in the design, construction and operation of landfills facilities. The papers presented in this volume bring together expertise and experience from industry, academia and the Environment Agency. Specific areas highlighted inc
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Guidelines for the Supplementary Load Testing of Bridges
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers, National Steering Committee for the Load Testing of Bridges
Publication date: 08 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727727374
Stock level: Out of stock
£25.50
As of January 1999, under European Union ruling, 40 tonne vehicles have been allowed on UK roads, leading to a challenging programme of bridge assessment. In order to determine the true load carrying capacity of bridges and to avert a vast programme of unnecessary bridge strengthening and replacement schemes, bridge owners are turning increasingly
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River and Channel Revetments: A Design Manual
Author(s): Manuela Escarameia, HR Wallingford
Publication date: 01 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727726919
Stock level: Low stock
£88.25
This comprehensive manual provides extensive information on the types of revetment available and provides guidance on the choice and design of these systems. With regard to natural and artificial watercourses information is included on revetments that incorporate some form of structural protection and revetments which combine this protection with v
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Dynamics of Marine Sands
Author(s): Richard Soulsby
Publication date: 01 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727725844
Stock level: Low stock
£100.00
The practical engineer looking for an urgent solution to a sediment-related project often finds that the results of the relevant academic research are published in unfamiliar language in publications that are not easily available. Dynamics of marine sands bridges the gap between academic research and practical applications by summarising the resear
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Revetment Systems Against Wave Attack: A Design Manual
Author(s): Kirsty McConnell, HR Wallingford
Publication date: 01 January 1998
ISBN: 9780727727060
Stock level: Low stock
£81.00
This book discusses the functions of revetments and the different aspects of structural performance. It includes example specifications and calculations that enable the engineer to choose the most stable, appropriate and cost-effective revetment system for a given situation. The book guides the engineer through the design process, from identifying
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Appraisal and Repair of Reinforced Concrete
Author(s): R Holland, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 17 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725837
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
This book provides guidance on appraisal and repair of reinforced concrete building structures. It addresses the problems related to reinforced concrete, corrosion of reinforcement, cracking, cathodic protection and protective coatings, and it highlights the advantages and/or problems of each while explaining the methods and options available.
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Communication for Professional Engineers, 2nd edition
Author(s): W. Scott, Consultant and Bertil Billing, Consultant Engineer
Publication date: 11 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727726308
Stock level: Low stock
£29.00
The skill of communicating effectively is rarely an inherited gift and the majority of people, who are not blessed with this instinctive flair, have to work hard to develop and acquire the ability.
Communication for professional engineers is a practical and down-to-earth guide to all the techniques you can use to improve your communication skill
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The Management of Setting out in Construction: ICE Design and Practice Guide
Author(s): Edited by Jim Smith
Publication date: 11 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727726148
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
There are few tasks in surveying that carry more onerous responsibilities than setting out. The financial cost of mistakes can be horrendous and completely out of proportion to the perceived value of the task. Setting out is just one part of a complex series of processes which spans the whole project from inception to final construction and beyond.
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Highway Maintenance Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Edited by Ken Atkinson, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725318
Stock level: Low stock
£140.25
In recent years, highway maintenance has become a high profile topic, owning to the greater travel potential of the general public and to the impact of roadworks on commerce following the swing away from rail transport. Highway maintenance was once a low-key activity, but it is now being treated as an important consideration in the overall cost of
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Construction Project Management: Getting it Right First Time
Author(s): John Woodward, Consultant
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725578
Stock level: Low stock
£59.75
'Its breadth and depth commend it to everybody who needs to refresh, or extend their knowledge of the subject…It covers the full range of techniques from the hard basics of network analysis to the softer but vital human aspects. It centres upon the management of construction projects but draws in and illuminates the points where the techniques are
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Preparing International Proposals
Author(s): Robert E Bartlett, Consultant, Germany
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725820
Stock level: Low stock
£46.50
The modern engineer has two key tasks: successfully completing projects and working to win the next one. In the past, a proposal may have been little more than a brief letter, accompanied by one or two CVs. Now, to tempt prospective clients, engineers have to submit a comprehensive document consisting of one hundred pages or more of text and calcul
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Ground Anchorages and Anchored Structures
Author(s): Edited by G S Littlejohn, University of Bradford
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727726070
Stock level: Low stock
£100.00
This volume presents the proceedings of the first major international conference for over twenty years on the state-of-the-art of ground anchorage technology. Leading researchers and practitioners from around the world came together to discuss all the aspects of design, construction and performance of ground anchorages for the use in stabilisation
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Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales and West Central England, 2nd edition
Author(s): Edited by Roger Cragg
Publication date: 08 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725769
Stock level: Out of stock
£32.50
First published in 1985, this new edition of Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales and West Central England covers Wales and the Western part of central England from Cheshire in the north to just south of Bristol. This book has been substantially revised and updated to provide a much greater spread and depth of coverage, and describes many examples of
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Cement Chemistry
Author(s): H F W Taylor
Publication date: 01 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725929
Stock level: Low stock
£135.25
H. F. W. Taylor was for many years Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at he University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Since 1948, his main research interest has been the chemistry of cement. His early work laid the foundations of our understanding of the structure at the nanometre level of C-S-H, the principal product formed when cement is mixed with water,
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Bridge Modification 2: Stronger and Safer Bridges
Author(s): Edited by B Pritchard, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 01 March 1997
ISBN: 9780727725899
Stock level: Low stock
£46.50
Changes in vehicle weight limits and revisions to safety standards inevitably increase the demands placed on bridges. Increases in traffic flow seen over the past years also mean that many bridges are carrying much greater loads than their designers ever anticipated.
Following from the very successful Bridge Modification conference in 1994, this
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Sustainability and Acceptability in Infrastructure Development
Author(s): The Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 31 December 1996
ISBN: 9780727725356
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
This report has been written with the specific aim of opening up the subject presented by the Secretary of State to consider the interaction between engineering, the environment, economics and politics.
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Earth Reinforcement and Soil Structures
Author(s): C.J.F.P. Jones
Publication date: 13 September 1996
ISBN: 9780727734891
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
This volume provides a comprehensive explanation and illustration of earth reinforcement and soil structures, from the viewpoint of practising engineers involved in design and construction. This edition has been updated to reflect the latest changes in theory, materials and practice.
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Management Decisions for Engineers
Author(s): James Parkin, University of Technology, Sydney
Publication date: 13 May 1996
ISBN: 9780727725011
Stock level: Low stock
£57.25
Decision making is at the heart of managing. It is the retraceable expression of the process of organizing. Good decisions produce good outcomes for both the organization and the manager, and careers
May be made or broken by a single decision. This book is a guide, designed for engineering managers, to the theory and practice of how good decisio
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Appraisal and repair of masonry
Author(s): G Parkinson, G Shaw, J Beck and D Knowles, Curtins Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 18 April 1996
ISBN: 9780727720559
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
This guide provides practical advice and guidance on the repair and maintenance of masonry structures. It covers all of the various forms of masonry, including stone, brick and blockwork.
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Design of Fastenings in Concrete
Author(s): Comité Euro-International du Béton
Publication date: 17 April 1996
ISBN: 9780727735669
Stock level: Low stock
£57.25
Although a large number of fastenings assembles are installed every day, understanding in the engineering community of their behaviour is limited, and there is no generally accepted design method. Design of fastenings in concrete overcomes this.
This design guide is based on a safety concept using partial safety factors taken from the CEB/FIB Mo
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Numerical Methods in Structural Mechanics
Author(s): Mr Zdenek Bittnar and Mr Jiri Sejnoha
Publication date: 05 April 1996
ISBN: 9780727725554
Stock level: Low stock
£52.75
Fast development of numerical methods in mechanics has been attracting an increasing number of students, researchers and design specialists from all branches of engineering. This book has been written to provide an understanding of the nature and the theoretical basis of the most widely used numerical methods - the finite element method (FEM) and t
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Design Tables for Reinforced Laterally Loaded Masonry Panels: To BS 5628 Parts 1 and 2
Author(s): R Cheng, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 04 April 1996
ISBN: 9780727725264
Stock level: Low stock
£35.00
Masonry walls are not isotropic; they have less strength in bending in the vertical direction than in the horizontal. The design of two-way spanning masonry panels under lateral loads is therefore complicated and tedious.
The design tables in this book present a straightforward and practical approach to the design of rectangular lateral loaded p
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Dredging: ICE design and practice guide
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 06 October 1995
ISBN: 9780727720498
Stock level: Low stock
£38.25
Dredging is not only vital to maintain navigation, and therefore to international commerce, but also pays an important role in offshore engineering, the obtaining of aggregates for the construction industry, and in coastal defence works.This guide highlights the particular problems of excavating from underwater sites and describes the methods and e
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Practical Risk Management in the Construction Industry
Author(s): L Edwards, Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick
Publication date: 04 May 1995
ISBN: 9780727720641
Stock level: Low stock
£44.25
Until now there has been little information available to engineers to help them assimilate quickly the basic theories and practice of risk management; nor has information been widely available on the risk assessments actually produced and the risk management undertaken by those working in the construction industry . Previous text books and articles
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Coating Protection for Reinforcement
Author(s): Comité Euro-International du Béton
Publication date: 07 April 1995
ISBN: 9780727735386
Stock level: Low stock
£28.75
This state of the art report provides an in-depth, comprehensive technical survey of the three main coating protection systems for steel reinforcement:
hot-dip galvanizing
epoxy-coating
PVC-coating
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Arch Bridges
Author(s): Prof C Melbourne, University of Salford
Publication date: 07 April 1995
ISBN: 9780727720481
Stock level: Low stock
£100.00
In the twentieth century bridge engineers have seen many changes. Advances in technology, materials and engineers understanding of structural behaviour and methods of analysis has presented opportunities for innovation and have led to increasingly sophisticated solutions to the basic problem of providing a bridge over an obstacle.
However, despi
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Vegetation and Slopes: Stabilisation, Protection and Ecology
Author(s): Edited by D Barker
Publication date: 06 April 1995
ISBN: 9780727720313
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
Recent concerns over the durability and whole-life costs of systems such as steel and concrete, has focused attention on the self-repairing ability of vegetation, and its low-tech and low whole-life cost and maintenance requirements. The awareness of the beneficial effects of vegetation has been increasing within the civil engineering profession, a
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Project Cost Estimating
Author(s): N J Smith, UMIST
Publication date: 31 March 1995
ISBN: 9780727720320
Stock level: Low stock
£32.50
Estimates can be prepared at any stage during a project but in order to make use of an estimate it is important to consider its purpose, the stage of the project when it was prepared and the degree of risk in the project. To have any meaning, the purpose of any estimate must be linked to the stages of the project and to the data available. Engineer
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From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 01 March 1995
ISBN: 9780727720221
Stock level: Low stock
£35.25
The history of the various headquarters of the Institution of Civil Engineers traces the journey from the first meetings of a group of young engineers in Kendal's Coffee House, Fleet Street to the grandeur of the present headquarters at Great George Street.
Details are given of the design and construction of the present headquarters during 1908-
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Engineering A Cathedral
Author(s): M.J. Jackson
Publication date: 31 December 1994
ISBN: 9780727716842
Stock level: Low stock
£57.25
Engineering a cathedral offers professional engineers, architects and interested lay people a unique opportunity to study the construction of one of the world's finest buildings. Durham cathedral celebrates its 900th anniversary in 1993 and to mark the event a group of engineers have applied their modern knowledge and techniques to its structure. W
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Track Geotechnology and Substructure Management
Author(s): J. Waters, Railway Geotechnical Consultant and E. Selig, University of Massachusetts
Publication date: 05 October 1994
ISBN: 9780727720139
Stock level: Low stock
£168.25
This book is a comprehensive study which provides practical advice and guidance on the important role played by ground engineering in the construction of railway track, the use of which will result in optimum quality with the minimum maintenance effort and the most economical use of resources.
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Grouting in the ground
Author(s): Edited by A L Bell, Keller Colcrete Ltd
Publication date: 09 August 1994
ISBN: 9780727719287
Stock level: Low stock
£92.75
This book provides an excellent opportunity for engineers to catch up with the latest trends in geotechinical grouting and provides an in-depth discussion of the advances, views and knowledge from around the world. Topics range from compensation grouting, jet grouting, soil mixing and permeation grouting to ten monitoring and instrumentation system
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Groundwater Problems in Urban Areas
Author(s): Edited by W B Wilkinson
Publication date: 05 July 1994
ISBN: 9780727719744
Stock level: Low stock
£92.75
Changing groundwater levels are causing problems in many cities and urban areas throughout the world. Over-abstraction of water for prolonged periods has caused levels to fall with ensuing foundation settlement and structural damage caused by consolidation of the underlying strata, in addition to frequent deterioration of water quality. Conversely,
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Piling: European practice and worldwide trends
Author(s): M.J. Sands
Publication date: 31 December 1993
ISBN: 9780727735645
Stock level: Low stock
£100.00
This title from Thomas Telford contains the proceedings of a conference organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers, and held in London on 7 - 9 April 1992.
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Large Scale Pile Tests in Clay
Author(s): Mr J Clarke
Publication date: 08 April 1993
ISBN: 9780727719188
Stock level: Out of stock
£64.50
During the 1980's a number of high quality, large scale pile tests, sponsored by the offshore industry, Department of Energy and EEC, were performed at onshore locations in clays similar to those encountered in installations in the North Sea. At the same time research was being carried out to instrument and monitor the piled foundation beneath one
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Structures Under Shock and Impact
Author(s): Mr P S Bulson
Publication date: 02 April 1992
ISBN: 9780727716811
Stock level: Low stock
£116.25
The response of structures and structural elements to explosive shock or high speed impact is of growing interest to scientists, research engineers and designers throughout the world. Attacks on civil and military buildings, bridges and transport vehicles by terrorists mean that more attention has to be given at the design stage to the effects of e
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Information Management in a Contractor - A Model for the Flow of Data
Author(s): Norman Fisher and Shen Li Yin
Publication date: 01 April 1992
ISBN: 9780727716668
Stock level: Low stock
£76.00
This book examines the flow of all information, relating not only to projects, but also to the more general information, that circulates in a contract. A model is presented, complete with definitions, that would help senior managers to analyze where there are deficiencies in existing management systems and provide the necessary basis for computeris
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Civil engineering in the nuclear industry
Author(s): R Dexter-Smith
Publication date: 31 October 1991
ISBN: 9780727716439
Stock level: Low stock
£76.00
Civil engineering has an important part to play at every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle. This book examines ways in which the industry has responded to this challenge with new methods of construction giving higher productivity and faster construction times.
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John Smeaton FRS
Author(s): A W Skempton
Publication date: 30 June 1991
ISBN: 9780727700889
Stock level: Low stock
£40.75
John Smeaton, the greatest civil engineer of the 18th century, was principal founder of the profession in Britain and an engineering scientist of international repute. This is a biography of Smeaton, which covers the whole range of his diverse achievements.
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Slope Stability Engineering: Developments and Applications
Author(s): Edited by R J Chandler, Imperial College
Publication date: 15 April 1991
ISBN: 9780727716606
Stock level: Low stock
£92.75
This volume draws on the experience and extensive research of an international authorship to bring together details on slope stability, causes of landslides, landslide prevention, new techniques for assessing and predicting stability, new methods for stabilising slopes and the special considerations for coastal situations.
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The Embankment Dam
Author(s): The British Dam Society
Publication date: 12 April 1991
ISBN: 9780727716477
Stock level: Low stock
£76.25
This is a state-of-the art survey of embankment dams. Drawing on an international authorship, it provides up to date information from many countries on research, environmental considerations, risks, hazards and safety. A major part of the book is devoted to a wide-ranging study of tailings dams, which draws together current international practice.
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