Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xxi
CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1
CHAPTER 2 Engineering Geology 15
CHAPTER 3 Soil Components and Weight-Volume Parameters 26
CHAPTER 4 Soil Classification 46
CHAPTER 5 Rocks 63
CHAPTER 6 Site Investigation, Drilling, and Sampling 80
CHAPTER 7 In Situ Tests 104
CHAPTER 8 Elements of Geophysics 151
CHAPTER 9 Laboratory Tests 172
CHAPTER 10 Stresses, Effective Stress, Water Stress, Air Stress, and Strains 245
CHAPTER 11 Problem-Solving Methods 280
CHAPTER 12 Soil Constitutive Models 345
CHAPTER 13 Flow of Fluid and Gas Through Soils 370
CHAPTER 14 Deformation Properties 401
CHAPTER 15 Shear Strength Properties 443
CHAPTER 16 Thermodynamics for Soil Problems 472
CHAPTER 17 Shallow Foundations 485
CHAPTER 18 Deep Foundations 553
CHAPTER 19 Slope Stability 649
CHAPTER 20 Compaction 698
CHAPTER 21 Retaining Walls 716
CHAPTER 22 Earthquake Geoengineering 784
CHAPTER 23 Erosion of Soils and Scour Problems 823
CHAPTER 24 Geoenvironmental Engineering 872
CHAPTER 25 Geosynthetics 904
CHAPTER 26 Soil Improvement 938
CHAPTER 27 Technical Communications 962
References 969
Index 983
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