Modeling Environment -- The Advective Transport Model PMPATH -- Tutorials -- Examples and Applications -- Supplementary Information.Processing Modflow is one of the most complete three-dimensional groundwater and transport simulation systems in the world. The text and the companion full-version software (PMWIN) offer a totally integrated simulation system. PMWIN comes with a professional graphi…
Assessment of Fractured Porous Media -- Aquifer-Analogue Approach -- From Natural System to Numerical Model -- Project Scale Studies -- Core Scale -- Bench Scale -- Field-Block Scale -- Scale-Independent Approaches and Investigations -- The Multi-shell Model - A Conceptual Model Approach -- The Sensitivity Coefficient Approach -- Diffusivity Measurements -- Analysis of the Influence of Boundari…
Prologue -- Karl von Terzaghi’s Childhood, Youth and his Road to Practice and Theory -- Prelude to the Scandal -- Intermezzo -- The Scandal -- The Further Development -- Epilogue.The Engineer and the Scandal gives an in-depth study into an important part of the development of the Theory of Porous Media as well as the amazing story of the glittering life of Professor Karl von Terzaghi. It prov…
Design -- Installations in tunnels -- Investigation and description of the ground -- Heading -- Support -- Grouting and freezing -- The New Austrian Tunnelling Method -- Management of groundwater -- Application of compressed air -- Subaqueous tunnels -- Shafts -- Safety during construction -- Tunnelling Mechanics -- Behaviour of soil and rock -- Stress and deformation fields around a deep circu…
From the contents: Fracture Physics: The Griffith Criterion; Nucleation; Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanisms; Dynamic Fracture; Subcritical Cracking -- Fracture Geology: Fractography and Tectonofractography; Uplift, Post-Uplift, Neotectonic and Surface Joints; Primary and Secondary Fractures -- Four Fracture Provinces in Sedimentary Rocks: The Appalachian Plateau; The Bristol Channel Basin; Zion…
Transport properties of porous media -- Transport in Porous Media: Upscaling by Multiscale Asymptotic Expansions -- Micromechanical Analysis of Saturated Porous Media with Local Mass Exchange Phenomenon -- Diffusive transport in disordered media. Application to the determination of the tortuosity and the permeability of cracked materials. -- Microporomechanics -- Poroelasticity and strength of …
Introduction -- Stress and strain and its basic equations -- The basic mechanical characteristics of the geomaterial -- The elastic model of geomaterial -- Classical Plasticity Theory -- The development of the plastic theory of geomaterial -- The static elastoplastic model for geomaterial -- Generalized plastic mechanics considering the rotation of principal axis of stress -- The dynamic consti…
1.An approach for optimization of drilled shaft design in dubai -- 2.Effect of soil parameter on the long drive micro-tunelling process (a case study of al jadaf area, dubai, uae) -- 3.Probabilistic and deterministic analysis of an excavation supported by tiebacks and nailing in residual soil of gneiss -- 4.Ground movements induced by tunnels excavation using pressurized tunnel boring machine-c…
1.Earth pressure distribution on rigid pipes overlain by tda inclusion -- 2.Dynamic nonlinear horizontal resistance of pile group considering soil types and pile-soil contact conditions -- 3.Response of four pile group subjected to eccentric loading -- 4.Negative skin friction distribution on a single pile - numerical analysis -- 5.The proposed use of generalized regression neural network to pr…