An introduction to soil mechanics

✍ Scribed by Verruijt, A

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Series: Theory and applications of transport in porous media 30
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure in civil engineering, and themes covered include stresses in soils, groundwater flow, consolidation, testing of soils, and stability of slopes. Readers will learn the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, and the most important methods of determining soil parameters both in the laboratory and in situ. The basic principles of applied mechanics, that are frequently used, are offered in the appendices. The author?s considerable experience of teaching soil mechanics is evident in the many features of the book: it is packed with supportive color illustrations, helpful examples and references. Exercises with answers enable students to self-test their understanding and encourage them to explore further through additional online material. Numerous simple computer programs are provided online as Electronic Supplementary Material.&n bsp; As a soil mechanics textbook, this volume is ideally suited to supporting undergraduate civil engineering students. . Read more...

Abstract: This textbook offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure in civil engineering, and themes covered include stresses in soils, groundwater flow, consolidation, testing of soils, and stability of slopes. Readers will learn the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, and the most important methods of determining soil parameters both in the laboratory and in situ. The basic principles of applied mechanics, that are frequently used, are offered in the appendices. The author?s considerable experience of teaching soil mechanics is evident in the many features of the book: it is packed with supportive color illustrations, helpful examples and references. Exercises with answers enable students to self-test their understanding and encourage them to explore further through additional online material. Numerous simple computer programs are provided online as Electronic Supplementary Material.&n bsp; As a soil mechanics textbook, this volume is ideally suited to supporting undergraduate civil engineering students

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 1-12
Classification (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 13-20
Particles, Water, Air (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 21-28
Stresses in Soils (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 29-37
Stresses in a Layer (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 39-47
Darcy’s Law (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 49-58
Permeability (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 59-65
Groundwater Flow (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 67-76
Flotation (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 77-84
Flow Net (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 85-91
Flow Towards Wells (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 93-96
Stress Strain Relations (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 97-107
Tangent Modulus (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 109-114
One-Dimensional Compression (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 115-122
Consolidation (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 123-129
Analytical Solution (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 131-140
Numerical Solution (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 141-147
Consolidation Coefficient (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 149-155
Creep (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 157-162
Shear Strength (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 163-171
Triaxial Test (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 173-180
Shear Test (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 181-186
Pore Pressures (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 187-195
Undrained Behaviour of Soils (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 197-204
Stress Paths (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 205-211
Elastic Stresses and Deformations (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 213-217
Boussinesq (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 219-224
Newmark (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 225-229
Flamant (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 231-235
Layered Soil (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 237-240
Lateral Stresses (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 241-248
Rankine (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 249-259
Coulomb (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 261-267
Tables for Lateral Earth Pressure (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 269-276
Sheet Pile Walls (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 277-286
Blum (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 287-293
Sheet Pile Wall in Layered Soil (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 295-300
Limit Analysis (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 301-303
Strip Footing (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 305-310
Prandtl (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 311-315
Limit Theorems for Frictional Materials (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 317-320
Bearing Capacity (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 321-328
Vertical Slope in Cohesive Soil (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 329-334
Stability of Infinite Slope (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 335-342
Slope Stability (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 343-348
Soil Exploration (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 349-357
Model Tests (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 359-365
Pile Foundations (Arnold Verruijt)....Pages 367-373
Back Matter ....Pages 375-420

✦ Subjects

Soil mechanics