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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.
Autorentext
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.
Klappentext
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:
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
CHAPTER 11 Problem-Solving Methods 280
CHAPTER 12 Soil Constitutive Models 345
CHAPTER 13 Flow of Fluid and Gas Through Soils 370
CHAPTER 14 Deformation Properties 401
CHAPTER 15 Shear Strength Properties 443
CHAPTER 16 Thermodynamics for Soil Problems 472
CHAPTER 17 Shallow Foundations 485
CHAPTER 18 Deep Foundations 553
CHAPTER 19 Slope Stability 649
CHAPTER 20 Compaction 698
CHAPTER 21 Retaining Walls 716
CHAPTER 22 Earthquake Geoengineering 784
CHAPTER 23 Erosion of Soils and Scour Problems 823
CHAPTER 24 Geoenvironmental Engineering 872
CHAPTER 25 Geosynthetics 904
CHAPTER 26 Soil Improvement 938
CHAPTER 27 Technical Communications 962
References 969
Index 983