Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics. Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics. This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses. INDICE: 1 Introduction 1.1 Why this book? 1.2 Geotechnical–engineering 1.3 The past and the future 1.4 Some recent and notable projects 1.5 Failures may occur 1.6 Our work is buried 1.7 Geotechnical engineering can be fun 1.8 Units Problems 2 Engineering Geology 2.1 Definition 2.2 The Earth 2.3 Geologic Time 2.4 Rocks 2.5 Soils 2.6 Geological features 2.7 Geologic maps 2.8 Ground water Problems 3 Soil Components and Weight–Volume Parameters 3.1 Particles, liquid, and gas 3.2 Particle size, shape, and color 3.3 Composition of gravel, sand, and silt particles 3.4 Composition of clay and silt particles 3.5 Particle behavior 3.6 Soil structure 3.7 Three phase diagram 3.8 Weight volume parameters 3.9 Measurement of the weight volume parameters 3.10 Solving a weight volume problem Chapter 3 Problems 4 Soil Classification 4.1 Sieve analysis 4.2 Hydrometer analysis 4.3 Atterberg limits and other limits 4.4 Classification parameters 4.5 Engineering significance of classification parameters and plasticity chart 4.6 Unified Soil Classification System USCS Problems 5 Rocks 5.1 Rock groups and identification 5.2 Rock mass vs rock substance 5.3 Rock discontinuities 5.4 Rock index properties 5.5 Rock engineering properties 5.6 Rock mass rating 5.7 Rock engineering problems 5.8 Permafrost Problems 6 Site Investigation, Drilling, and Sampling 6.1 General 6.2 Preliminary site investigation 6.3 Number and depth of borings and in–situ tests 6.4 Drilling 6.5 Sampling 6.6 Ground water level 6.7 Field identification and boring logs 6.8 Soil names 6.9 Offshore site investigations Problems 7 In Situ Tests 7.1 Standard penetration test (SPT) 7.2 Cone penetration test (CPT) 7.3 Pressuremeter test (PMT) 7.4 Dilatometer test (DMT) 7.5 Vane shear test (VST) 7.6 Borehole shear test (BST) 7.7 Plate load test (PLT) 7.8 California Bearing Ratio Test (CBR) 7.9 Pocket penetrometer, torvane tests 7.10 Pocket erodometer test 7.11 Compaction control tests 7.12 Hydraulic conductivity field tests (HCT) 7.13 Offshore in situ tests Problems 8 Elements of Geophysics 8.1 General 8.2 Seismic techniques 8.3 Electrical resistivity techniques 8.4 Electromagnetic methods 8.5 Remote sensing techniques Problems 9 Laboratory Tests 9.1 General 9.2 Measurements 9.3 Compaction Test Dry Unit Weight 9.4 Compaction Test Soil Modulus 9.5 Consolidation Test 9.6 Swell Test 9.7 Shrink Test 9.8 Collapse Test 9.9 Direct Shear Test 9.10 Simple Shear Test 9.11 Unconfined Compression Test 9.12 Triaxial Test 9.13 Resonant Column Test 9.14 Lab Vane Test 9.15 Soil Water Retention Curve (Soil Water Characteristic Curve) Test 9.16 Constant Head Permeameter Test 9.17 Falling Head Permeameter Test for Saturated Soils 9.18 Wetting Front Test for Unsaturated Soils 9.19 Air Permeability Test for Unsaturated Soils 9.20 Erosion Test Problems 10 Stresses, Effective Stress, Water Stress, Air Stress, and Strains 10.1 General 10.2 Stress vector, normal stress, shear stress, stress tensor 10.3 Sign convention for stresses and strains 10.4 Calculating stresses on any plane: equilibrium equations for two dimensional analysis 10.5 Calculating stresses on any plane: Mohr circle for two dimensional analysis 10.6 Mohr circle in three dimensions 10.7 Stress invariants 10.8 Displacements 10.9 Normal strain, shear strain, strain tensor 10.10 Cylindrical coordinates and spherical coordinates 10.11 Stress–strain curves 10.12 Stresses in the three soil phases 10.13 Effective stress (unsaturated soils) 10.14 Effective stress (saturated soils) 10.15 Area ratio factors α and β 10.16 Water stress profiles 10.17 Water tension, suction 10.18 Precision on water content and water tension 10.19 Stress profile at rest in unsaturated soils 10.20 Soil Water Retention Curve 10.21 Independent Stress State variables Problems 11 Problem Solving Methods 11.1 General 11.2 Drawing to scale as a first step 11.3 Available laws 11.4 Continuum Mechanics Methods 11.5 Numerical Simulation Methods (FDM, FEM, DEM, BEM) 11.6 Probability and Risk Analysis 11.7 Regression analysis 11.8 Artificial neural network method (ANN) 11.9 Dimensional analysis 11.10 Similitude laws for experimental simulations 11.11 Types of Analyses (drained–undrained, effective stress–total stress, short term– long term) Problems 12 Soil Constitutive Models 12.1 Elasticity 12.2 Linear viscoelasticity 12.3 Plasticity 12.4 Common models Problems 13 Flow of Fluid and Gas Through Soils 13.1 General 13.2 Flow of water in a saturated soil 13.3 Flow of water and air in unsaturated soil Problems 14 Deformation Properties 14.1 Modulus of deformation general 14.2 Modulus which one? 14.3 Modulus influence of state factors 14.4 Modulus influence of loading factor 14.5 Modulus differences between fields of application 14.6 Modulus, modulus of subgrade reaction, and stiffness 14.7 Common values of Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio 14.8 Correlations with other tests 14.9 Modulus, a comprehensive model 14.10 Initial tangent modulus Go or Gmax 14.11 Preconsolidation pressure and overconsolidation ratio from consolidation test 14.12 Compression index, recompression index, secondary compression index from consolidation test 14.13 Time effect from consolidation test 14.14 Resilient modulus for pavements 14.15 Unsaturated soils, effect of drying and wetting on the modulus 14.16 Shrink–swell deformation behavior, shrink–swell modulus 14.17 Collapse deformation behavior Problems 15 Shear Strength Properties 15.1 General 15.2 Basic experiments 15.3 Stress strain curve, water stress response, and stress path 15.4 Shear strength envelope 15.5 Unsaturated soils 15.6 Experimental determination of shear strength (lab tests, in situ tests) 15.7 Estimating effective stress shear strength parameters 15.8 Undrained shear strength of saturated fine grained soils 15.9 The ratio su/σov’ and the SHANSEP method 15.10 ndrained shear strength for unsaturated soils 15.11 Pore pressure parameters A and B 15.12 Estimating undrained shear strength values 15.13 Residual strength parameters and sensitivity 15.14 Strength profiles 15.15 Types of analyses 15.16 Transformation from effective stress solution to undrained strength solution Problems 16 Thermodynamics for Soil Problems 16.1 General 16.2 Definitions 16.3 Constitutive and fundamental laws 16.4 Heat conduction theory 16.5 Axisymmetric heat propagation 16.6 Thermal properties of soils 16.7 Multilayer systems 16.8 Applications 16.9 Frozen soils Problems 17 Shallow Foundations 17.1 Definitions 17.2 Case history 17.3 Definitions and design strategy 17.4 Limit states, load and resistance factors, factor of safety 17.5 General behavior 17.6 Ultimate bearing capacity 17.7 Load Settlement Curve Approach 17.8 Settlement 17.9 Shrink–swell movement, swelling pressures, collapse movement 17.10 Foundations on shrink swell soils 17.11 Tolerable movements 17.12 Large mat foundations Problems 18 Deep Foundations 18.1 Different types of deep foundations 18.2 Design strategy 18.3 Pile installation 18.4 Vertical load single pile 18.5 Vertical load pile group 18.6 Downdrag 18.7 Piles in shrink–swell soils 18.8 Horizontal load and moment–single pile 18.9 Horizontal load and Moment pile group 18.10 Combined Piled Raft Foundation (CPRF) Problems 19 Slope Stability 19.1 General 19.2 Design approach 19.3 Infinite slopes 19.4 Seepage force in stability analysis 19.5 Plane surfaces 19.6 Block analysis 19.7 Slopes with water in tensile crack 19.8 Chart methods 19.9 Method of slices 19.10 Water stress for slope stability 19.11 Types of analyses: 19.12 Progressive failure in strain softening soils 19.13 Shallow slide failures in compacted unsaturated embankments 19.14 Reinforced slopes 19.15 Probabilistic approach 19.16 Three dimensional (3D) circular failure analysis 19.17 Finite element analysis. 19.18 Seismic slope analysis 19.19 Monitoring 19.20 Repair methods Problems 20 Compaction 20.1 General 20.2 Compaction laboratory tests 20.3 Compaction field tests 20.4 Compaction and soil type 20.5 Intelligent roller compaction 20.6 Impact roller compaction 20.7 Dynamic or drop–weight compaction 20.8 Problems 21 Retaining Walls 21.1 Different types (top–down, bottom–up) 21.2 Active, at rest, passive earth pressure and displacement in between 21.3 Earth pressure theories 21.4 Special case of undrained behavior of fine grained soils 21.5 At rest earth pressure 21.6 Earth pressure due to compaction 21.7 Earth pressures in shrink swell soils 21.8 Displacements 21.9 Gravity walls 21.10 Mechanically stabilized earth walls or MSE walls 21.11 Cantilever top–down walls 21.12 Anchored walls and strutted walls 21.13 Soil nail walls 21.14 Special case of trench Problems 22 Earthquake Geo–Engineering 22.1 Background 22.2 Earthquake magnitude 22.3 Wave propagation 22.4 Dynamic soil properties 22.5 Ground motion 22.6 Seismic hazard analysis 22.7 Ground response analysis 22.8 Design parameters 22.9 Liquefaction 22.10 Seismic slope stability 22.11 Seismic design of retaining walls 22.12 Seismic design of foundations Problems 23 Erosion of Soils and Scour Problems 23.1 The erosion phenomenon 23.2 Erosion models 23.3 Measuring the erosion function 23.4 Soil erosion categories 23.5 Rock erosion 23.6 Water velocity 23.7 Geometry of the obstacle 23.8 Bridge scour 23.9 River meandering 23.10 Levee overtopping 23.11 Countermeasures for erosion protection 23.12 Internal erosion of earth dams Problems 24 GeoEnvironmental Engineering 24.1 Introduction 24.2 Types of wastes and contaminants 24.3 Laws and regulations 24.4 Geochemistry background 24.5 Contamination 24.6 Remediation 24.7 Landfills 24.8 Future considerations Problems 25 Geosynthetics 25.1 General 25.2 Types of geosynthetics 25.3 Properties of geosynthetics 25.4 Design for separation 25.5 Design of liners and covers 25.6 Design for reinforcement 25.7 Design for Filtration and drainage 25.8 Design for erosion control 25.9 Other design applications Problems 26 Soil Improvement 26.1 Overview 26.2 Soil improvement without admixture in coarse grained soils 26.3 Soil improvement without admixture in fine grained soils 26.4 Soil improvement with replacement 26.5 Soil improvement with grouting and admixtures 26.6 Soil improvement with inclusions 26.7 Selection of soil improvement method Problems 27 Technical Communications 27.1 General 27.2 E–mails 27.3 Letters 27.4 Geotechnical Reports 27.5 Theses and Dissertations 27.6 Visual Aids for Reports 27.7 Phone Calls 27 8 Meetings 27.9 Presentations and PowerPoint Slides 27.10 Media Interaction 27.11 Ethical Behavior 27.12 Belong to Your Professional Society 27.13 Rules for a Successful Career References
- ISBN: 978-0-470-94856-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 1024
- Fecha Publicación: 06/12/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés