Geotechnical engineering handbook. Volume 2, Procedures

Mark of ownership. xviii, 679 pages : illustrations (certaines en couleur) ; 25 cm excavation (process) grouting (process) drilling (process) piles (structural elements) Civil engineering--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Excavation. Shoring and underpinning. Anchorage (Structural engineering) Boring. Piling (Civil engineering) Traduction de : Grundbau-Taschenbuch. Comprend des références bibliographiques. English Volume 2 of the Handbook covers the geotechnical procedures used in manufacturing anchors and piles as well as for improving or underpinning foundations, securing existing constructions, controlling ground water, excavating rocks and earth works. It also treats such specialist areas as the use of geotextiles and seeding. Ground improvement -- Grouting in geotechnical engineering -- Underpinning, undercutting -- Ground freezing -- Ground anchors -- Drilling technology -- Driving and extraction -- Foundations in open water -- Ground dewatering -- Construction methods for cuttings and slopes in rock -- Microtunnelling -- Earthworks -- Geosynthetics in geotechnical and hydraulic engineering -- Slope protection by bioengineering techniques.…