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Engineering Geology

Principles and Practice

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Michael H. Freitas

    1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, United Kingdom

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  • Provides the reader with the basics of engineering geology

  • Illustrates how geology is related to calculations of stability, deformation and groundwater flow

  • Specifically written for those whose first degree is not in geotechnical engineering

  • Shows how to identify, investigate and define an engineering response to problems arising from ground conditions

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. The Basis of Engineering Geology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Basis of Engineering Geology

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      Pages 1-18

  3. Investigating the Ground

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Geological Materials

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      Pages 21-61

    3. Geological Masses

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      Pages 63-90

    4. Maps

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      Pages 91-131

    5. Recovery of Samples

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      Pages 133-158

    6. Field Tests and Measurements

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      Pages 159-207

    7. Organisation, Design and Reporting of Site Investigations

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      Pages 209-225

  4. Ground Behaviour

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      Pages 227-227
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    2. Ground Response to Engineering and Natural Processes

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      Pages 229-245

    3. Withdrawal of Support by Surface Excavations

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      Pages 247-294

    4. Withdrawl of Support by Underground Excavations

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      Pages 295-347

    5. Static Loading of the Ground

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      Pages 349-386

    6. Dynamic Loading of the Ground

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      Pages 387-400

    7. Ground Reaction to Changes of Fluid and Gas Pressures

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      Pages 401-418

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 419-450
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About this book

David Price had written the greater part of this book by the time he died; it has been completed by his colleagues as a tribute to the many contributions he made to the subject of engineering geology through his professional and academic life. David graduated from the University of Wales in 1954 with the degree of Geology with Mathematics and Physics, joined the Overseas Division of the Geological Survey and was despatched to what was then British Guiana, to map economic mineral reserves and construction materials. He returned to the UK in 1958 to join the construction company George Wimpey. The post-war boom was beginning and David was engaged as an engineering geologist. In those days industry appreciated the need for research, as little was known for the tasks that had to be completed, and David joined a remarkable group of scientists and engineers at Wimpey’s Central Laboratory at Hayes; the young reader can best visualise this as an ”industrial university”. At that time formal education and training in engineering geology did not exist and as David recalled ”… no one really knew what they were doing; we followed the principles of our subject, used common sense, learnt from what happened on site and talked to those who seemed to know more than we on the subject in hand. ” It was David’s generation that established ”Engineering Geology”, as we now know it, in the UK and he played a full part in its foundation.

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  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, United Kingdom

    Michael H. Freitas

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