Geotechnical Engineering - Applied Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Volume 2

Download or read book Geotechnical Engineering - Applied Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Volume 2 written by Cyrus Aryani and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-volume book series delivers a comprehensive coverage of topics in geotechnical engineering practice. The unique design of the text allows the user to look up a topic of interest and be able to find, in most cases, the related information all on the same sheet with related figures and tables, eliminating the need for figure and table referral numbers. In a way, each page is a capsule of information on its own, yet, related to the subject covered in that chapter. The topics covered in all five volumes will assist the reader with becoming a licensed professional engineer (PE) and a licensed geotechnical engineer (GE). Volume 2 contains chapters 8 through 11, which provides the user with a practical guide on the fundamentals of soil mechanics and foundation engineering, including: Lateral Earth Pressures (at-rest case, active case, passive case, Rankine's and Coulomb's methods, Culmann's graphical method, different site and surface loading conditions, ...) and Retaining Structures (different types of retaining walls and braced cuts, stability analysis, backfill and subdrain systems, ...), Stability of Slopes (natural and man-made slopes, modes of failure, methods of analysis, landslide stabilization methods, hillside grading and land development, erosion control, ...), Shallow Foundations (types of shallow foundations, methods of bearing capacity evaluation for a variety of site, groundwater, and loading conditions, settlement analysis, ...), and Deep Foundations (installation of piles, construction of drilled shafts, load capacity of piles and drilled shafts, static and dynamic testing, integrity testing of piles, cross-hole sonic logging and thermal integrity profiling for drilled shafts, ...). Example problems follow the topic they cover. Several practice problems are included at the end of each chapter with the answers provided.