jdonville - note you want a copy of P&D Elastic Solutions. I'm almost done scanning it and can/will make it available to the group here should they want.
BigH,
it's really a benefactor's job the one you are doing!
The book is not easy to come by, I've been chasing it for some time at college libraries but without success.
I'll be happy to join the list of the grateful ones.
I've got two copies - one with me here in India and one in storage in Toronto! Sadly, to much of my references are in storage. I'll work out with SRE the best way of disseminating this when I have it done. Our group is more than welcomed to it!
ps I will be contacting the various members who are working on aspects of the journal to get things finalized.
Was able to get the whole of the text done before moving to Indonesia, but still have Appendix A and B to do. This concerns the derivations of the elastic solutions, I guess. I'll let you know. In the meantime, for the members of our group, please send me your home co-ordinates if you would like a disk copy of it. I might even throw on my favourite Tschebotarioff as well ! ! !
My email: bohica dot fries @ bigfoot dot com . As they say in India, do the needful in making this into the proper address!!
I have BigH's CD-ROM. Elastic Solutions is about 10 MB (no appendix A or B). Please contact me at jtdonville AT hotmail DOT com with instructios for getting a copy to you.
I will scan the Appendices some time in the future for completeness. Jeff - might want to send Zeevaert's book to SRE too! SRE - for now, can it be made only on your back-door page for our group?
I agree - I do believe that Zeevaert's book is out of print - can't remember offhand the publisher (John Heidt has it - perhaps he can look it up). Same with the old 1951 version of the late Tschobarioff's book. Seems like copyright would be over with by now - and his revision of the book was in 1973. I would think that for such old books out of print, the publishers might permit, with acknowledgement, them to be put on the web - such as Schofield and Wroth have done with Critical State Soil Mechanics. If we can get the permissions, this is one of the add-ons we can use with the journal. We can use my site - geotechs4geotechs for all the journal and any other legal stuff we can do. Perhaps vulcanhammer has ideas/help on this as he must have dealt with this before.
I was also thinking that we could contact Ground Engineering and perhaps a few other magazines and see if we could get permission to put out some of their old papers (say interesting papers more than 20 years out of print). It would be good publicity for them and maybe they can expand their base of subscribers. I was thinking of checking this out personally.
Ciao.
One of the reasons my site emphasises US government publications is because they are public domain from the start. The other European works there (like Verruijt) were released on the internet without restriction on redistribution.
I would be surprised if McGraw-Hill allowed the copyright on Tschebotarioff to lapse after 28 years. Textbook publishers are usually pretty diligent about this kind of thing, both to protect their interest and also to insure that copyrighted material (especially figures) don't end up in their books without permission (I learned this the hard way while co-authoring a textbook for Prentice-Hall.) But then again people make mistakes, as do bureaucracies. I'm not sure if a renewal check can be done with the Library of Congress or not (as is the case with patents and the USPTO.)
Got some time for Eng-Tips again, been evaluating the cost-effectiveness or rehabilitating a 125 year old industrial building. Here is a link to what I call the "Foundations By Terzaghi Library", intended for the use of this group:
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