A Short Course on Foundation Engineering 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Bruce Menzies, N.E. Simons

• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. This book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right and then using them in practical applications.The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Dedication......Page 3
Preface (first edition)......Page 4
Preface (second edition)......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Dedication......Page 12
Definition of effective stress......Page 13
The nature of effective stress......Page 14
The principle of effetive stress......Page 15
The computation of effective stress......Page 19
Short-term and long-term stability......Page 24
The nature of shear strength......Page 35
The measurement of shear strength......Page 36
The use of elastic theory in soil mechanics......Page 68
Elastic stress distributions......Page 69
Elastic settlements......Page 73
Heave of excavations......Page 82
Estimates of undrained modulus......Page 83
Seismic methods for measuring ground stiffness......Page 90
Introduction......Page 99
The 'indentation problem'......Page 102
Ultimate bearing capacity......Page 106
Worked Examples......Page 116
Consolidation settlements of clays......Page 119
Prediction of primary consolidation settlement......Page 127
Secondary settlement......Page 144
Other methods of predicting settlement......Page 150
The prediction of settlements on granular deposits......Page 152
Allowable settlements......Page 171
Types of pile......Page 174
Piles in cohesive soils......Page 179
Group action of piles......Page 198
Negative skin friction......Page 201
Lateral loads on piles......Page 205
Pile testing......Page 215
Offshore pile design: total stress and effective stress approaches......Page 223
Worked Examples......Page 230
Challenge......Page 232
References and Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 251