Books published by A A Balkema Publishers

Deals with the design and execution of grouting works in all kinds of rock and soil, including jet grouting. Design principles are discussed whereby different approaches, exercised in different parts of the world, are compared to each other.

This volume highlights the technical advances in shoreline stabilization with special emphasis on application of offshore breakwaters. It provides an overview of theoretical and practical matters related to shore evolution control.

This text provides an insight into the wear processes that take place during the cutting of rock with steel cutting tools.

This manual describes current methods for designing dike revetments of pitched blocks and block mattresses. The use of revetments on river and canal banks is also covered.

These papers show how new research in the classic areas and Germany, but particularly in Eastern Europe, is radically altering views of the stratigraphy and palaeocology of the early-middle Pleistocene period.

Presents papers on mine and mill tailings and mine waste, as well as current and future issues facing the mining and environmental communities.

This work presents the proceedings of EUROSTEEL '95, the first European conference on steel structures. It covers the developments in analysis and design of a range of steel structures, discusses theoretical and experimental investigations.

This work combines research results with review papers, discussing dykes from different scientific perspectives. Coverage includes: current dyke geometry measurements; field observation of host rock deformation; textural analyses; and more.

This text contains the proceedings of the fifth conference on karst geohazards. It presents 65 papers that cover topics such as: groundwater contamination through sinkholes and the karst surface; stormwater drainage and flooding problems.

These papers feature research covering the analysis of data from the most advanced systems, including visible and infrared optical sensors and passive and active microwave sensors.

This text, based on an international symposium held in 1994, covers geosynthetic clay liners (GCL), a type of geosynthetic material which blends natural soil and geosynthetics in the form of a composite barrier-system.

Artificial ground freezing forms a temporary support for underground excavations and prevents pollution spreading in permeable soils. This guide to the properties of frozen and thawed soils covers topics such as: heat and mass transfer.

This volume covers a range of techniques used to understand groundwater flow and contaminant transport in carbonate aquifers. The text begins with a review of thoughts and methods followed by a number of topics including the use of tracers.

This volume offers up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.

Aimed at students interested in natural resources and environmental science, this illustrated book explains fundamental hydrologic principles and favoured methods of analysis, and includes exercises and examples to develop problem-solving skills.

Decision Support Systems (DSSs) are electronic systems that support the decision-making process. This work discusses the development of the DSS for groundwater pollution assessment.

This text contains two suboptimal schemes of the Kalman filter, both of which can approximate the results from the Kalman filter at a much lower cost.

This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and 1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their importance.

This work looks at the development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials that, with the help of numerical models, have increased the ability to predict and to interpret the mechanical behaviour of geotechnical works.

The proceedings of the 2nd International Scale Effects in Rock Masses, held in Lisbon, June 25, 1993. The text includes coverage of scale effects in the determination of the deformability and strength of rock masses.

As mining operations increase in scale and mines go progressively deeper, the geotechnical input into mine design is of importance. This book covers topics in geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring, including coverage of groundwater.