Advances in Transportation Geotechnics
Proceedings of the International Conference held in Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008
Published on 1. August 2008
786 pages
978-1-134-02481-0 (ISBN)
Description
Highways provide the arteries of modern society. The interaction of road, rail and other transport infrastructure with the ground is unusually intimate, and thus needs to be well-understood to provide economic and reliable infrastructure for society. Challenges include not only the design of new infrastructure (often on problematic ground), but inc
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
57,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-02481-0 (9781134024810)
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Ed Ellis | Hai-Sui Yu | Glenn McDowell
Advances in Transportation Geotechnics
Proceedings of the International Conference held in Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008
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08/2008
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CRC Press
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Persons
Ed Ellis, Hai-Sui Yu and Glenn McDowell, Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics, University of Nottingham, UK. Andrew Dawson and Nick Thom, Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.
Editor
Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics, University of Nottingham, UK
University of Leeds, UK
Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics, University of Nottingham, UK
Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Content
Preface 1 Keynotes: Innovations in design and construction of granular pavements and railways; Unified constitutive modeling for pavement materials with emphasis on creep, rate and interface behavior; Applications of reinforced soil for transport infrastructure; Recent research on railway track sub-base behaviour; The effect of soil viscosity on the behaviour of reinforced embankments 2 UNBAR 3 Slope instability, stabilisation, and asset management 4 Construction on soft ground 5 Interaction with structures and geogrid reinforced soil 6 Effect of climate change and vegetation 7 Highways, pavements and subgrade 8 Rail 9 Soil improvement 10 Characterisation and recycling of geomaterials
