Principles of Foundation Engineering

✍ Scribed by Braja M. Das

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 946
• Edition: 8th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Master the fundamental concepts and applications of foundation analysis design with PRINCIPLES OF FOUNDATION ENGINEERING. This market leading text maintains a careful balance of current research and practical field applications, offers a wealth of worked out examples and figures that show you how to do the work you will be doing as a civil engineer, and helps you develop the judgment you’ll need to properly apply theories and analysis to the evaluation of soils and foundation design.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
   PART I: GEOTECHINCAL PROPERTIES AND EXPLORATION OF SOIL.
2. Geotechnical Properties of Soil.
3. Natural Soil Deposits and Subsoil Exploration.
   PART II: FOUNDATION ANALYSIS.
4. Shallow Foundations: Ultimate Bearing Capacity.
5. Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations: Special Cases.
6. Vertical Stress Increase in Soil.
7. Settlement of Shallow Foundation.
8. Mat Foundations.
9. Pile Foundations.
10. Drilled-Shaft Foundations.
11. Foundations on Difficult Soil.
    PART III: LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE AND EARTH-RETAINING STRUCTURES.
12. Lateral Earth Pressure.
13. Retaining Walls.
14. Sheet Pile Walls.
15. Braced Cuts.
    PART IV: SOIL IMPROVEMENT AND GROUND MODIFICATION.
16. Soil Improvement and Ground Modification.
    Appendix A: Reinforced Concrete Design of Shallow Foundations.