Soils and Foundations for Architects and Engineers

✍ Scribed by Chester I. Duncan Jr. FASCE (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Classification of Soils....Pages 1-26
Physical Properties of Soils....Pages 27-45
Subsurface Soil Exploration....Pages 46-67
Allowable Soil Bearing Pressure....Pages 68-116
Spread Footings....Pages 117-136
Piles, Piers, and Caissons....Pages 137-177
Lateral Earth Pressure....Pages 178-195
Walls—Construction Details....Pages 196-227
Walls—Design Considerations....Pages 228-261
Soil Compaction....Pages 262-284
Expansive Clay....Pages 285-307
Characteristics of Rock....Pages 308-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-361

✦ Subjects

Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Architecture, general; Civil Engineering