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Prepared by the Frozen Ground Committee and the Transportation and
Infrastructure Committee of the Cold Regions Engineering Division
Frost Action in Soils: Fundamentals and Mitigation in a Changing
Climate presents the challenges of cold regions engineering in a
changing climate, as well as the current practices and
state-of-the-art tools for addressing them. Climate change poses
questions regarding associated effects on freeze-thaw action and
the potential impacts of these effects on pavements and other
structures in cold regions. In the last 35 years, significant
technological advancements addressing frost action in soils have
occurred; and tools for instrumentation, measurement, and computer
analysis have improved considerably. This manuscript explores frost
action in soils from different perspectives, as presented in three
parts. The first section presents the fundamentals of frost heave
and thaw weakening, the impacts on roads and other structures, and
the projected effects of climate change on frost action. The second
section presents mitigation of frost heave and thaw weakening
within pavement structures. The third section highlights four case
studies dealing with frost action and mitigation for buildings,
roadways, and airfields. This book is a valuable resource for
engineers, scientists, and government agencies involved in cold
regions engineering and the mitigation of frost action on pavements
and other structures.
Widely used in civil, mechanical and automotive engineer-ing since
the early 1980s, multilayer rubber bearings have been used as
seismic isolation devices for buildings in highly seismic areas in
many countries. Their appeal in these applications comes from their
ability to provide a component with high stiffness in one direction
with high flexibility in one or more orthogonal directions. This
combination of vertical stiffness with horizontal flexibility,
achieved by reinforcing the rubber by thin steel shims
perpendicular to the vertical load, enables them to be used as
seismic and vibra-tion isolators for machinery, buildings and
bridges. Mechanics of Rubber Bearings for Seismic and Vibration
Isolation collates the most important information on the mechanics
of multilayer rubber bearings. It explores a unique and
comprehensive combination of relevant topics, covering all
prerequisite fundamental theory and providing a number of
closed-form solutions to various boundary value problems as well as
a comprehensive historical overview on the use of isolation. Many
of the results presented in the book are new and are essential for
a proper understanding of the behavior of these bearings and for
the design and analysis of vibration or seismic isolation systems.
The advantages afforded by adopting these natural rubber systems is
clearly explained to designers and users of this technology,
bringing into focus the design and specification of bearings for
buildings, bridges and industrial structures. This comprehensive
book: * includes state of the art, as yet unpublished research
along with all required fundamental concepts; * is authored by
world-leading experts with over 40 years of combined experience on
seismic isolation and the behavior of multilayer rubber bearings; *
is accompanied by a website at www.wiley.com/go/kelly The concise
approach of Mechanics of Rubber Bearings for Seismic and Vibration
Isolation forms an invaluable resource for graduate students and
researchers/practitioners in structural and mechanical engineering
departments, in particular those working in seismic and vibration
isolation.
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