A guide to field instrumentation in geotechnics principles, installation and reading
This book is written for senior designers, consulting engineers, and major contractors who need a major introduction to the general purpose, availability, and analysis of field instruments before details of their own project can be progressed, and it serves as a textbook to any specialist geotechnic...
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Oxon, UK
Spon Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The general philosophy of geotechical instrumentation
- 2. Basic soil mechanics and pore pressures
- 3. Displacements and global deformations
- 4. Vibrating wire instruments and localised measurement of strains
- 5. Survey techniques
- 6. Specialist instruments
- 7. Instrument systems for tunnelling projects
- 8. Data logging, recovery and presentation.