This book includes the best-selected papers on the latest advancements in underground structures and geological engineering.The ongoing population growth is resulting in rapid urbanization, new infrastructure development, and increasing demand for the Earth's natural resources (e.g., water, oil/gas, minerals). This, together with the current climate change and increasing impact of natural hazards, implies that the engineering geology profession is called upon to respond to new challenges. It is recognized that these challenges are particularly relevant in the developing and newly industrialized regions.

Covers a wide spectrum of applied interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research, from geology to engineering Presents a series of practical case studies and real-life experiences of researchers and practitioners from across the globe (5 continents/16 countries) working in various geological, environmental, and social settings Illustrates a variety of new challenges the engineering geologists and engineers are faced with, in particular in recently industrialized regions, in relation to sustainable use of mineral and water resources, urbanization, and infrastructure protection from geohazards

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Defining the contours of combined plastic, anomaly dense and anomaly stressed hierarchical inclusions located into a block layered medium by waveâ™s data.- A Closer Look: Petrographic Analysis of Extremely Weak Sandstone/Cemented Sand of the Ghayathi Formation, Dubai, UAE.- Seismic Hazard assessment of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT CITY), GUJRAT.- Characterising and Structural Review of the Rock Mass and its Geological Structures at Open Pit Mine in Queensland-Australia.- Initiation mechanism of extension strain of rock mine slopes.- Stress in rock slopes: non-persistent versus persistent joint model.- Load capacity of helical piles with different geometrical aspects in sandy and clayey soils: A numerical study.- Influence of Rock Matrix on Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Laterite Rock using Triaxial System.- Physico-Chemical Analysis Of Groundwater In Iglas And Beswan, Aligarh District, Uttar Radesh, India.- Effect of petrophysical and sedimentologicalproperties on the heterogeneity of carbonate reservoirs: impact on production parameters. <p