Geomechanics of Failures: Advanced Topics

by Eduardo E. Alonso, Alexander M. Puzrin, Núria Pinyol, et al.

Geotechnical failures, specially the catastrophic ones, are a stimulus to improve current understanding of phenomena and procedures and tools for analysis and prediction.

This unconventional approach to geomechanics is the essence of this book. In general, soil mechanics and geotechnical textbooks describe first the concepts and theoretical developments and then apply them to interpret or solve a particular applications. This book follows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048135370
• ISBN13: 9789048135370
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"