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• Geotechnical engineering
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• Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow: Contemporary Understanding and Applications (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Fracture Characterization and Fluid Flow (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Construction of Hoover Dam: Preliminary Investigations, Design of Dam, and Progress of Construction (Washington: GPO, 1933), by Ray L. Wilbur, Elwood Mead, and United States Department of the Interior
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity: Letter From the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting Pursuant to Law a Report by the Director of the Reclamation Service on Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity With Respect to Irrigation from the Colorado; Together With the Proceedings of the Conference on the Construction of the Boulder Canyon Dam Held at San Diego, Calif. (Washington: GPO, 1922), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review of the Draft Federal Long-Term Monitoring Plan for the Colorado River Below Glen Canyon Dam (1994), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon (1996), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know (second edition, 1993), ed. by Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Kentucky Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction and Initial Operations of the Kentucky Project (TVA technical report #13; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Tennessee Valley Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuân, and After (second edition; London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1903), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Assuân Reservoir and Lake Moeris (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1904), by William Willcocks
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kortes Dam and Powerplant: Technical Record of Design and Construction (1959), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision on the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rock Tunneling With Steel Supports; With An Introduction to Tunnel Geology (Youngstown, OH: Commercial Shearing and Stamping Co., 1946), by Robert V. Proctor, Thomas L. White, and Karl Terzaghi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Clandestine Service History: The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956 (written in 1967; redacted declassified version released 2017), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations (PDF at cia.gov)

• Pothole Blasting for Wildlife (Wisconsin Conservation Dept. Publication 352; 1965), by Harold A. Mathiak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Control of Explosives: Administration and Execution of the Laws Pertaining to the Control of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session (10 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geotechnical Site Investigations for Underground Projects, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications (1995), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Fallout Shelter: Snack Bar, Basement Location, Plan D (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 1966 Architectural Awards: Buildings With Fallout Shelter (1967) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Concrete Cross Tie and Fastener Loads (US Dept. of Transportation interim report; 1977), by R. H. Prause, H. D. Harrison, James C. Kennedy, and R. C. Arnlund (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elementary Arithmetic: Its Meaning and Practice (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1947), by B. R. Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretic Arithmetic, in Three Books (London: Printed for the author by A. J. Valpy, 1816), by Thomas Taylor (PDF at djm.cc)

• An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1897), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Foundations of Mathematics: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Geometry, by Paul Carus (page images at Cornell)

• Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; or, The Hidden City of the Andes, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• Principles of Soil Mechanics (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1963), by Ronald F. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soil Mechanics (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1962), by Alfreds R. Jumikis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subsurface Exploration and Sampling of Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes: Report on a Research Project of the Committee on Sampling and Testing, Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, American Society of Civil Engineers (Vicksburg, MS: Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and American Society of Civil Engineers Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1948), by Donald W. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Engineering Properties of Clay Shales, Report 2: Residual Shear Strength and Classification Indexes of Clay Shales (Vicksburg, MS: Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1974), by Frank C. Townsend and Paul A. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Understanding and Managing Irrigated Acid Sulfate and Salt-Affected Soils: A Handbook for the Lower Murray Reclaimed Irrigation Area (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2017), by R. W. Fitzpatrick, Luke Mosley, and Freeman J. Cook (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

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