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 concise and thorough text that explains soil’s fundamental behavior and its applications to foundation designs and slope stability problems and incorporates basic engineering science knowledge with engineering practices and practical applications.
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While many introductory texts on soil mechanics are available, most are either lacking in their explanations of soil behavior or provide far too much information without cogent organization. More significantly, few of those texts go beyond memorization of equations and numbers to provide a practical understanding of why and how soil mechanics work.
Based on the authors’ more than 25 years of teaching soil mechanics to engineering students, Soil Mechanics Fundamentals presents a comprehensive introduction to soil mechanics, with emphasis on the engineering significance of what soil is, how it behaves, and why it behaves that way. Concise, yet thorough, the text is organized incrementally, with earlier sections serving as the foundation for more advanced topics. Explaining the varied behavior of soils through mathematics, physics and chemistry, the text covers:
• Engineering behavior of clays
• Unified and AASHTO soil classification systems
• Compaction techniques, water flow and effective stress
• Stress increments in soil mass and settlement problems
• Mohr’s Circle application to soil mechanics and shear strength
• Lateral earth pressure and bearing capacity theories
Each chapter is accompanied by example and practicing problems that encourage readers to apply learned concepts to applications with a full understanding of soil behavior fundamentals. With this text, engineering professionals as well as students can confidently determine logical and innovative solutions to challenging situations.
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Dear all,
kindly please find for me the paper in ACI Structural Journal (2011) below
Empirical Equations for Peak Shear Strength of Low Aspect Ratio Reinforced Concrete Walls,
Author(s): C. Kerem Gulec and Andrew S. Whittaker
Vol: 108(1), pp. 80-89 (2011)
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'Engineering geology is one of those terms that invite definition. The American Geological Institute, for example, has expanded the term to mean 'the application of the geological sciences to engineering practice for the purpose of assuring that the geological factors affecting the location, design, construction, operation and maintenance of engineering works are recognized and adequately provided for
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Dear all,
Im looking the following paper published in Bulletin Earthquake Engineering
Strength, deformation and failure capacity and failure modes of RC walls under cyclic loading,
By Sofia Grammatikou, Dionysis Biskinis, Michael N. Fardis
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BS 7994 - Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings
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Recommendations and guidance on the application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings.
BS 7974:2001 : Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Code of practice
PD 7974-0:2002 : Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Guide to design framework and fire safety engineering procedures
PD 7974-1:2003 : Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Initiation and development of fire within the enclosure of origin (Sub-system 1)
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PD 7974-7:2003 : Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Probabilistic risk assessment
PD 7974-8:2012 : Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings. Property protection, business and mission continuity, and resilience
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Complete coverage of earthquake-resistant concrete building design
Written by a renowned seismic engineering expert, this authoritative resource discusses the theory and practice for the design and evaluation of earthquakeresistingreinforced concrete buildings. The book addresses the behavior of reinforced concrete materials, components, and systems subjected to routine and extreme loads, with an emphasis on response to earthquake loading.
Design methods, both at a basic level as required by current building codes and at an advanced level needed for special problems such as seismic performance assessment, are described. Data and models useful for analyzing reinforced concrete structures as well as numerous illustrations, tables, and equations are included in this detailed reference.
Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings covers:
Seismic design and performance verification
Steel reinforcement
Concrete
Confined concrete
Axially loaded members
Moment and axial force
Shear in beams, columns, and walls
Development and anchorage
Beam-column connections
Slab-column and slab-wall connections
Seismic design overview
Special moment frames
Special structural walls
Gravity framing
Diaphragms and collectors
Foundations
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