The book serves the interests and needs of designers, teachers and students of civil engineering. It provides the designers with specific design procedures and the relevant background material to understand the theory and methodology behind the procedures, their limitations and their relevance to the problem on hand. For teachers, this is a good resource book to teach more than one course in geotechnical engineering, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The students will find the book a good reference for several courses in geotechnical engineering and in their future professional career.
About one-fourth of the book is devoted to principles of soil mechanics. This will equip the reader with details on the engineering properties of soils, their evaluation and selection for the solution of the problem on hand. The remaining part of the book, on soil engineering, covers all important problems typically met with in civil engineering practice. Applications of procedures are illustrated with numerous solved examples. Instances where the designer must use his own judgement are also brought out. A useful and exhaustive list of Indian Standard Codes on soil mechanics, foundation engineering and other related areas in geotechnical engineering is given at the end of the book.
Preface
SI Units
Chapter 1 : Fundamental Definitions, Relationships and Inter-Relationships
Chapter 2 : Index Properties
Chapter 3 : Soil Classification
Chapter 4 : Soil Compaction
Chapter 5 : Flow Through Soils (Steady State)
Chapter 6 : Effective Stress Principle
Chapter 7 : Consolidation
Chapter 8 : Development of Pore Water Pressure and Pore Water Pressure Parameters
Chapter 9 : Shear Strength of Saturated Soils
Chapter 10 : Foundation Loads
Chapter 11 : Location and Depth of Foundations
Chapter 12 : Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations
Chapter 13 : Elastic Solutions for Vertical Stresses and Displacements in Soils
Chapter 14 : Settlement of Shallow Foundations
Chapter 15 : Pile Foundations
Chapter 16 : Lateral Earth Pressure
Chapter 17 : Earth Retaining Structures
Chapter 18 : Stability of Earth Slopes
Chapter 19 : Subsurface Investigation
Chapter 20 : Dynamic Analysis of Foundations
References
I S Codes on Feotechnical Engineering
Index
