Geotechnical Engineering

Jean-Louis Briaud

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Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics. Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics. This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses.

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JEAN-LOUIS BRIAUD, PhD, is Past President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He is a Professor and Holder of the Spencer J. Buchanan Chair in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and a research engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Over the last thirty years, he has conducted extensive research on various aspects of geotechnical engineering and has been a consultant on numerous large-scale projects in several countries. Among other awards, he has received the ASTM C.A. Hogentogler Award, the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the ASCE Martin Kapp Award, the G. Geoffrey Meyerhof Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society, and the ASCE Ralph B. Peck Award.

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The first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics

Most books designed for an introductory course in geotechnical engineering focus on saturated soil mechanics. Geotechnical Engineering: Unsaturated and Saturated Soils takes a new approach, based on the fundamentals of unsaturated soils and extends the description to a wide variety of applications.

Written by an international leader in the field, this comprehensive introduction presents geotechnical engineering as dealing with a true three-phase soil while treating saturated soil as a special case, rather than the other way around. It covers numerous topics that reveal the vast domain covered by geotechnical engineering and its important contributions to many elements of infrastructure. It includes, in addition to conventional subjects, a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses, such as:

Engineering geology
Rocks
Site investigation and in situ tests
Geophysics
Problem solving methods and soil models
Thermodynamics for soils
Earthquake geo-engineering
Erosion
Geoenvironmental
Geosynthetics
Ground improvement
Technical communications
Geotechnical Engineering: Unsaturated and Saturated Soils takes students beyond the usual confines of an undergraduate introduction to become a useful reference as they enter graduate studies or begin their careers.

Zusammenfassung
Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics. Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics. This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments xxi

CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1

CHAPTER 2 Engineering Geology 15

CHAPTER 3 Soil Components and Weight-Volume Parameters 26

CHAPTER 4 Soil Classification 46

CHAPTER 5 Rocks 63

CHAPTER 6 Site Investigation, Drilling, and Sampling 80

CHAPTER 7 In Situ Tests 104

CHAPTER 8 Elements of Geophysics 151

CHAPTER 9 Laboratory Tests 172

CHAPTER 10 Stresses, Effective Stress, Water Stress, Air Stress, and Strains 245