A Guide to Soil Mechanics

(Size: 24x16cms.), This book covers all the soil mechanics and foundation engineering topics thaat are commonly included in civil engineering degree courses, and provides a number of springboards into related advanced topics. Although it is intended principally to satisfy the needs of student's civil engineers, this guide should also prove useful to those practising engineers who are unaware of the powerful and elegant reconstruction of the subject, which has been made possible by the recent concepts of plasticity, dilatancy and critical states. The aim has been to create a book that will be read with interest understood, and then put to work. To this end, the theory has been enriched by the notion of "the engineer" who needs to solve problems create designs and take decisions. The book Contain following Contents: Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Constitution of Soil, 3. Ground Water, 4. Friction, 5. Cohesion, 6. Small Strains, 7. Transient Flow, 8. The Deformation of a soil Element, 9. The collapse of Soil constructions, 10. Towards Design, Reference, Index. ( 2003, rep. 2009). ISBN:9788173714252 452 Yr. of Pub.2009 Paper Back