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Engineers need to be able to test the flammability of the materials they use in buildings and other structures. However, the range of test procedures and regulations in this important area is often confusing. Flammability testing of materials used in construction, transport and mining provides an authoritative guide to current best practice in ensuring safe design.

From the second of biennial symposia, 54 papers cover embankment and slope stability, mining, tunneling, soil and structure interaction, dynamic analysis, and constitutive models. They also include applications and case studies of FLAC and three- dimensional FLAC. Among specific topics are a visco-elastic- plastic softening model and its application for solving static and dynamic stability problems in potash mining, the seismic modeling of sheet pile bulkheads for waterfront applications, calculating the collapse strains of floodable rockfills by means of finite difference formulated numerical simulations, the effect of embankment slope on the lateral response of piles, and the softening of coal on the design of yield pillars. Only authors are indexed. c. Book News Inc.

The 2 volume proceedings of the 9th ICE Conference on Coastal Structures and Breakwaters discusses the state of the art in analysis, design and construction of breakwaters and other types of coastal structures, including interaction between coastlines and structures, and vice versa.

As dams age, they are subject to a series of external agents and processes which tend to deteriorate the qualities with which they were originally conceived to stand against these actions. At the same time, it is often necessary to respond to increased safety standards, either in the structural or hydrological fields. Reservoir sedimentation or water quality issues within the reservoir also give raise to problems that must be addressed. Lastly, climatic change in the management of water resources, and the need for sustainability have clearly become new incidence factors with which Dam Owners will have to coexist in the future.

Dams form an essential part of the infrastructure of many countries. Control of water, whether for agriculture, public or industrial supply, or flood alleviation is a prerequisite for social and economic development.