仉文岗，Prof Wengang Zhang is full professor of Geotechnical Engineering in School ofCivil Engineering, Chongqing University. He graduated from NanyangTechnological University, Singapore in 2014 and was the recipient of theOverseas High-level Talent （Young Thousand Talented Professor） in 2017.He now serves the school as the Associate Chair, in charge ofinternationalization. His research areas mainly include numerical modelling in deep braced excavation, reliability analysis, and soft computing and big data geotechnical analysis. Prof. Zhang has published 46 papers in international journals as the main author and one book about big data with Springer. He was also the recipient of Computers and Geotechnics 2019 Sloan Outstanding Paper Award. The paper he published in GSF titled "Multivariate adaptive regression splines and neural network models for prediction of pile drivability"is also among the top three papers with the highest citations.

　　Deep Braced Excavations and Earth Retaining Systems collects the selected publications on deep braced excavation from the Editor. Apart from that， it also contains the basic design theories and principles in analysis of basal heave stability， toe stability， strut forces， retaining wall and ground deformations， auxiliary measures and instrumentation， observation methods and back analysis， etc. Aimed at both theoretical explication and practical application， this book covers a large scope. From basic to advanced， it tries to attain theoretical rigorousness and consistency. Each chapter is followed by problems and solutions so that the book can be readily taught at senior undergraduate and graduate including PhD students. Professors， research students， design engineers as well as staff work for consultation in the field of civil engineering， especially geotechnical engineering can benefit from the book.

1 Overview

2 Overall Stability
2．1 Introduction
2．2 Types of Factors of Safety
2．3 Basal Heave Stability
2．4 Push-in Stability
2．5 Overall Shear Failure of Cantilever Walls

3 Earth Pressure and Strut Force
3．1 Introduction
3．2 Lateral Earth Pressure in Braced Excavations
3．3 Parametric Study
3．4 One-Strut Failure Analysis

4 Retaining Wall and Bending Moment
4．1 Introduction
4．2 Wall Types
4．3 Stress Analysis Method
4．4 Design of Retaining Walls

5 Ground Movements
5．1 Introduction
5．2 Sources of Ground Movements
5．3 Ground Movement Predictions Adjacent to Excavations
5．4 Damage to Buildings

6 Finite Element Method
6．1 Introduction
6．2 Basic Principles
6．3 Determination of Initial Stresses
6．4 Modeling of an Excavation Process
6．5 Mesh Generation
6．6 Excavation Analysis Method
6．7 Example： Excavation in Sand
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7 Soll Constitutive Models
8 Dewatering of Excavations
9 Soil Improvement by Grouting
10 Adjacent Building Protection
11 Instrumentation and Monitoring
12 Back Analysis for Excavation
13 Excavation Failure Case Analysis

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