[Flaptekst]: Soil Mechanics This book - a translation and update of the Dutch version - is part of the introductory course of Soil Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. It contains an introduction into the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, such as the analysis of stresses, deformations, and stability. The most important methods of determining soil parameters, in the laboratory and in situ, are also described. Some basic principles of applied mechanics that are frequently used are presented in Appendices. The subdivision into chapters is such that one chapter can be treated in a single lecture of 45 minutes, approximately. Contents: Preface Part I Introduction 1 Introduction Part II Soil and stresses 2 Classification 3 Soil exploration 4 Particles, water, air 5 Stresses in soils 6 Stresses in a layer Part III Groundwater and flow 7 The law of Darcy 8 Permeability 9 Groundwater flow 10 Floatation 11 Flow net 12 Flow towards well Part IV Stiffness and settlement 13 Stress-strain relations 14 Tangentmoduli 15 One-dimensional compression 16 Consolidation 17 Analytical solution 18 Numerical solution 19 Consolidation coefficient 20 Secular effect (creep) Part V Strength and tests 21 Shear strength 22 Triaxial test 23 Dutch cell test 24 Shear test 25 Pore pressures 26 Undrained behaviour 27 Stress paths Part VI Stress distributions 28 Elastic stresses and deformations 29 Boussinesq 30 Newmark 31 Flamant 32 Deformation of layered soil 33 Lateral stresses in soils 34 Rankine 35 Coulomb 36 Tables for lateral earth pressure 37 Sheet pile walls 38 Blum's method 39 Sheet pile wall in layered soil Part VII Shallow and pile foundations 40 Limit analysis 41 Strip footing 42 Prandtl's solution 43 Brinch Hansen 44 Pile foundations Part VIII Slope and stability 45 Vertical slope in cohesive material 46 Stability of infinite slope 47 Slope stability Part IX Appendices A Stress analysis B Theory of elasticity C Theory of plasticity D Model tests Answers to problems Literature Index URL about this book: http://www.vssd.nl/hlf/f033.htm
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