Title:	Earth Structures In Transport, Water and Environmental Engineering
Authors:	Vanıcek, Martin
Keywords:	Introduction – Design Specification for Earth Structures
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher:	Library of Congress Control
Description:	One of the plausible perceptions about safe and generally optimal geotechnical structure, leads to the conclusion that its success is supported by four columns. The first column relies on the understanding of natural sciences such as Geology, Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology on one side, and on the understanding of Mechanics, Theory of Elasticity on the other side. The second column relies on the application of existing findings on the behaviour of soils and rocks under different stress-strain states – we are speaking about support from Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics. The third column relies on the combination of the theoretical findings with practical technologies during execution of Foundation Engineering and Underground Structures (Tunnelling). Finally the fourth column relies on a certain feeling of geological environment which Terzaghi (1959) denotes as “capacity for judgment” and he specifies that “this capacity can be gained only by years of contact with field conditions”.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/47939
ISBN:	978-1-4020-3964-5
Appears in Collections:	Building Construction

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