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This book is written to explain the influence ground conditions can have upon engineering with rocks and soils, and upon designing, analysing and executing an engineered response to the geological and geomorphological processes acting on them; these subjects form the essence of Engineering Geology. The text is written for students of the subject, either geologists or engineers, who encounter the challenge of idealising the ground and its processes for the purposes of design and of quantifying them for the purpose of analysis. With this in mind the book describes how geology can dictate the design of ground investigations, influence the interpretation of its findings, and be incorporated into design and analysis. The reader is constantly reminded of basic geology; the "simple" things that constitute the "big picture", a neglect of which may cause design and analyses to be at fault, and construction not to function as it should.
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David George Price Engineering Geology Principles and Practice
David George Price
Engineering Geology Principles and Practice
Edited and Compiled by M. H. de Freitas
With 182 Figures and 54 Tables
Author David George Price (deceased)
Editor Dr. Michael H. de Freitas Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London South Kensington London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Contributors Dr. Michael H. de Freitas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Dr. H. Robert G. K. Hack (ITC, The Netherlands) Ian E. Higginbottom (Wimpey Laboratories London, United Kingdom) Prof. Sir John L. Knill (deceased) (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Dr. Michiel Maurenbrecher (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 978-3-540-29249-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008937486
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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