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Geologic Hazards - A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers (Paperback)
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Geologic Hazards - A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers (Paperback)
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Geologic hazards pose the greatest threat to human safety for any
geotechnical undertaking, but it is ultimately the engineer's
ability to recognize and cope with these hazards that will
determine the safety of life and property. Armed with Geologic
Hazards: A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers you will be able
to properly recognize, understand various geologic hazards, and
provide safe and economical construction. Eminent expert Roy E.
Hunt thoroughly examines the potential for slope failures,
earthquakes, ground subsidence, collapse, and expansion. Using a
clear conceptual approach, he explains what measures are available
to minimize or eliminate the risks associated with each of these
geologic hazards. The book sets forth the basis for recognizing,
understanding, and treating geologic hazards, using general
concepts rather than rigorous mathematical analyses. The author
covers the prediction of slope failures through recognition of
geologic and other factors that govern failure, the treatment of
slopes that are potentially unstable and pose a danger to some
existing development, the design and construction of stable cut
slopes and sidehill fills, and the stabilization of failed slopes.
He provides the foundation for determining the potential for
surface movements and for preventing or controlling their effects.
A section on earthquakes summarizes and links all of the aspects of
earthquakes including their causes, characteristics, and surface
effects. It provides a thorough grounding in how to recognize
hazard potential and minimize the consequences. There is no field
within geotechnical engineering in which the state of the art is
changing so rapidly. Providing the latest information, this
resource is a useful tool for designing new projects and
redesigning old ones.
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