Soil Mechanics: Concepts and Applications

✍ Scribed by Powrie, William

• Publisher: Spon Press;CRC
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 741
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to encourage students to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of soil mechanics. It builds a robust and adaptable framework of ideas to support and accommodate the more complex problems and analytical procedures that.

Abstract: The aim of this book is to encourage students to develop an understanding of the fundamentals of soil mechanics. It builds a robust and adaptable framework of ideas to support and accommodate the more complex problems and analytical procedures that

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Preface to the first edition
General symbols
Chapter 1 Origins and classification of soils
Chapter 2 Soil strength
Chapter 3 Groundwater, permeability and seepage
Chapter 4 One-dimensional compression and consolidation
Chapter 5 The triaxial test and soil behaviour
Chapter 6 Calculation of soil settlements using elasticity methods
Chapter 7 The application of plasticity and limit equilibrium methods to retaining walls
Chapter 8 Foundations and slopes. Chapter 9 Calculation of bearing capacity factors and earth pressure coefficients for more difficult cases, using plasticity methodsChapter 10 Particular types of earth retaining structure
Chapter 11 Modelling, in situ testing and ground improvement
Index.

✦ Subjects

Soil mechanics