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Earth structures engineering involves the analysis, design and construction of structures, such as slopes and dams, that are composed mainly of earth materials, and this is a growth area in geotechnical engineering practice. This growth is due largely to increased involvement in designing various types of earth structures for the resources industries (slopes, impoundment structures, offshore islands, mine backfills), to the development of increas ingly large hydroelectric projects, to the need for more freshwater storage and diversion schemes, and to the need for transportation, communications and other facilities in areas where the natural earth materials are occasionally subject to mass instabilities. Although geotechnical engineering transects traditional disciplinary boundaries of civil, geological and mining engineering, the majority of geotechnical engineers are graduates from civil engineering schools. Here the geotechnical instruction has been concentrated on soil mechanics and foundation engineering because foundation engineering has traditionally been the major component of geotechnical practice. Geotechnical special ists, however, generally have acquired considerable formal or informal training beyond their first engineering degree, and an advanced degree with considerable cross-discipline course content is still considered an advantage for a young engineer entering a career in geotechnical engineering. Practical job experience is, of course, a necessary part of professional development but is readily interpreted and assimilated only if the required background training has been obtained.
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Book Title: Earth Structures Engineering
Authors: R. J. Mitchell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6001-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: R. J. Mitchell 1983
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-04-624004-2Published: 07 July 1983
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-6001-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 266
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary