[REQUEST] Geological Engineering by Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo and Mercedes Ferrer

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Geological Engineering by Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo and Mercedes Ferrer

Author: Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo and Mercedes Ferrer | | Format: PDF | Publisher: CRC | Year: 2011 | pages: 700 | ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0415413527

This beautifully illustrated text book has everything an engineering geologist and those with a wide interest in civil engineering could wish for. The content of ‘Geological Engineering’ is a suitable reminder of the huge range of disciplines and engineering problems that are expected to be tackled during the career of experienced international consultants, by international civil engineering design offices, by earth science researchers, and by graduate students starting out in this fascinating but challenging major branch of science and engineering. All the back-ground needed for those engaged in foundations, slopes, tunnels, dams and reservoirs and earth structures can be found here. This book is an authorised translation and significantly updated version of Vallejo’s and Ferrer’s Spanish edition of 2002, with expert technical review by Prof. Mike de Freitas of Imperial College. Most of the contributing authors are also from universities in Madrid, and sincere congratulations are due from all future users of this book.


Undoubtedly, it is going to prove to be one of the very best broad-reference books for a very large number of educators, geologists, engineering geologists, soil mechanics and rock mechanics specialists, and hydro-geologists. It is truly an impressive production. The authors Vallejo and Ferrer have had the assistance of ten prominent Spanish contributors to various chapters or parts of chapters. It is almost a relief to discover this, as the level of detail, the beautiful diagrams, and the scope, almost defy development by two authors, however prominent as educators and international consultants. And education is the key here, as the presentation is so clear, artistic, and accessible to all, and there are a lot of ‘worked examples’: for students and for those considerably older, who forget.


A helpful one-page table of contents, and an impressive seven pages of detailed content, a total of 678 pages, and several thousand diagrams, figures and photographs, all in colour, make for a very readable and also fascinating ‘dip-into’ book. It deserves space on every civil engineering design desk, in every earth-science educator’s bookshelf, in research cubicles (multiple examples: you will need this yourself), and also on a lot of coffee tables – if selected visiting friends also have geological/civil engineering/slopes/dams/rock mass/landslide curiosity (the list is too long). In fact it is the wealth of very informative diagrams, figures and interesting photographs, which make this book so desirable to possess. There is material to interest ‘everyone’ who has curiosity about the natural terrain and man-made structures around us.


On most pages there is more illustration than text, but the detail required in most subjects, is also there. For example the major introductory chapters on soil mechanics (and engineering geology of sediments), and on rock mechanics, take about 90 and 110 pages respectively, and are full of detail for refreshing what might be forgotten, and for learning new detail, and seeing references and figures from material maybe not seen, probably also for specialists in one or other of these fields, including this reviewer. Approximately one hundred well illustrated pages cover site investigation, in situ testing, rock mass description, and engineering geological mapping.

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