An introduction to soil mechanics
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An introduction to soil mechanics
（Theory and applications of transport in porous media, v. 30）
Springer, c2018
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-414) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This textbook offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure in civil engineering, and themes covered include stresses in soils, groundwater flow, consolidation, testing of soils, and stability of slopes.
Readers will learn the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, and the most important methods of determining soil parameters both in the laboratory and in situ. The basic principles of applied mechanics, that are frequently used, are offered in the appendices. The author's considerable experience of teaching soil mechanics is evident in the many features of the book: it is packed with supportive color illustrations, helpful examples and references. Exercises with answers enable students to self-test their understanding and encourage them to explore further through additional online material. Numerous simple computer programs are provided online as Electronic Supplementary Material.
As a soil mechanics textbook, this volume is ideally suited to supporting undergraduate civil engineering students.
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Professor at Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Classification
3. Particles, water, air
4. Stresses in soils
5. Stresses in a layer
6. Darcy's law
7. Permeability
8. Groundwater flow
9. Flotation
10. Flow net
11. Flow towards wells
12. Stress strain relations
13. Tangent modulus
14. One-dimensional compression
15. Consolidation
16. Analytical solution
17. Numerical solution
18. Consolidation coefficient
19. Creep
20. Shear strength
21. Triaxial test
22. Shear test
23. Pore pressures
24. Undrained behaviour of soils
25. Stress paths
26. Elastic stresses and deformations
27. Boussinesq
28. Newmark
29. Flamant
30. Layered soil
31. Lateral stresses
32. Rankine
33. Coulomb
34. Tables for lateral earth pressure
35. Sheet pile walls
36. Blum
37. Sheet pile wall in layered soil
38. Limit analysis
39.
40. Prandtl
41. Limit theorems for frictional materials
42. Bearing capacity
43. Vertical slope in cohesive material
44. Stability of infinite slope
45. Slope stability
46. Soil exploration
47. Model tests
48. Pile foundations
Appendix A. Stress analysis
Appendix B. Theory of elasticity
Appendix C. Theory of plasticity
Answers to problems
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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