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Soil Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications (2nd Ed.)
Authors: Ishibashi Isao, Hazarika Hemanta
Language: EnglishSubject for Soil Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications:
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Pore Water Pressure; Sheet Pile; Allowable Settlement; Effective Overburden Stress; Approximate Slope Method; Mohr’s Circle; Atterberg Limits And Indices; Water Table Elevations; Borehole Drilling; Shear Test; Failure Criteria; Unit Skin Friction; California Bearing Ratio Test; Vertical Stress Increment; Origin Of Soils; Equipotential Line; Aashto Classification System; Effective Stress; Unified Soil Classification System; Grain Size Distribution Curve; Uscs; Point Load; At-Rest Earth Pressure; Dry Unit Weight; Terzaghi'S Consolidation Theory; Preconsolidation Stress; Mohr'S Circle; Consolidation Stress; Shear Strength; Tip Resistance; Boundary Water Pressures; Rankine’s Passive Earth Pressure; Direct Shear Test; Physical Properties Of Soils; Total Unit Weight; Capillary Rise; Lateral Earth Pressure; Group Pile; Sliding Surface; Pile Capacity; Failure Envelope; CU Test
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How Does Soil Behave and Why Does It Behave That Way?
Soil Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition effectively explores the nature of soil, explains the principles of soil mechanics, and examines soil as an engineering material. This latest edition includes all the fundamental concepts of soil mechanics, as well as an introduction to foundation engineering, including coverage of site exploration, shallow and deep foundation design, and slope stability. It presents the material in a systematic, step-by-step manner, and contains numerous problems, examples, and solutions.
New to the Second Edition:
The revised text expands the contents to include an introductory foundation engineering section to make the book cover the full range of geotechnical engineering. The book includes three new chapters: Site Exploration, Deep Foundations, and Slope Stability.
This text:
- Provides an introductory chapter on soil mechanics
- Explores the origin and description of soils and discusses soil shapes and gradations
- Presents the unique characteristics of clays
- Details soil classifications by the Unified Soil Classification System (also ASTM) and by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
- Highlights laboratory and field compaction techniques, including field specification and density testing,, and the CBR (California Bearing Ratio) method
- Discusses the flow of water through soils, defining hydraulic heads, as well as the two-dimensional flow net technique and a systematic approach to compute boundary water pressures
- Examines the concept of effective stress and its applications to various soil mechanics problems
- Explores stress increments in a soil mass due to various types of footing load on the ground
- Presents Terzaghi?s one-dimensional consolidation theory and its applications
- Covers Mohr?s circle from geotechnical perspectives with use of the pole, which is utilized in chapters relating to shear strength and lateral earth pressure
- Addresses the shear strength of soils, failure criteria, and laboratory as well as field shear strength determination techniques
- Evaluates at-rest earth pressure and the classic Rankine and Coulomb active and passive pressure theories and present critical review of those methods
- Reviews introductory foundation engineering and site exploration
- Describes the bearing capacity theory and, as an application, the shallow foundation design procedure
- Covers deep and shallow foundation design procedures
- Explains slope stability problems and remediation procedures, and more
Soil Mechanics Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition is a
Introduction. Physical Properties of Soil. Clays and Their Behavior. Soil Classifications. Compaction. Flow of Water Through Soils. Effective Stress. Stress Increments in Soil Mass. Settlements. Mohr’s Circles in Soil Mechanics. Shear Strength. Lateral Earth Pressures. Site Exploration. Bearing Capacity and Shallow Foundations. Deep Foundation. Slope Stability.
Dr. Isao Ishibashi, P.E., is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He obtained bachelors and master’s degrees from Nagoya University, Japan. After earning his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, he taught and was on the research faculty at the University of Washington and Cornell University before moving to Old Dominion University in 1986. His research includes soil liquefaction, dynamic soil properties, static and dynamic earth pressures, seismic water pressure, granular mechanics, slope stability, and used-tire application to embankment. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 published technical papers.
Dr. Hemanta Hazarika