Smith''s Elements of Soil Mechanics

Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics
 
The revised 10th edition of the core textbook on soil mechanics
 
The revised and updated edition of Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics continues to offer a core undergraduate textbook on soil mechanics. The author, a noted expert in geotechnical engineering, reviews all aspects of soil mechanics and provides a detailed explanation of how to use both the current and the next versions of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes accessible explanations, helpful illustrations, and worked examples and covers a wide range of topics including slope stability, retaining walls and shallow and deep foundations.
 
The text is updated throughout to include additional material and more worked examples that clearly illustrate the processes for performing testing and design to the new European standards. In addition, the book's accessible format provides the information needed to understand how to use the first and second generations of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. The second generation of this key design code has seen a major revision and the author explains the new methodology well, and has provided many worked examples to illustrate the design procedures. The new edition also contains a new chapter on constitutive modeling in geomechanics and updated information on the strength of soils, highway design and laboratory and field testing. This important text:
* Includes updated content throughout with a new chapter on constitutive modeling
* Provides explanation on geotechnical design to the new version of Eurocode 7
* Presents enhanced information on laboratory and field testing and the new approach to pavement foundation design
* Provides learning outcomes, real-life examples, and self-learning exercises within each chapter
* Offers a companion website with downloadable video tutorials, animations, spreadsheets and additional teaching materials
 
Written for students of civil engineering and geotechnical engineering, Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics, 10th Edition covers the fundamental changes in the ethos of geotechnical design advocated in the Eurocode 7.

List of contents

Part I Fundamentals of soil mechanics
 
1 Classification and Physical Properties of Soils
 
Learning outcomes
 
Agricultural and engineering soil
 
Origin of soil
 
Clay soils
 
Field identification of soils
 
Laboratory classification of soils
 
Activity of a clay
 
Soil classification and description
 
Soil properties
 
Exercises
 
2 Permeability and Flow of Water in Soils
 
Learning outcomes
 
Subsurface water
 
Flow of water through soils
 
Darcy's law of saturated flow
 
Coefficient of permeability, k
 
Determination of permeability in the laboratory
 
Determination of permeability in the field
 
Approximation of coefficient of permeability
 
General differential equation of flow
 
Potential and stream functions
 
Flow nets
 
Critical flow conditions
 
Design of soil filters
 
Capillarity and unsaturated soils
 
Earth dams
 
Seepage through non-uniform soil deposits
 
Exercises
 
3 Total and Effective Stress
 
Learning outcomes
 
State of stress in a soil mass
 
Total stress
 
Pore Pressure
 
Effective stress
 
Stresses induced by applied loads
 
Exercises
 
4 Shear Strength of Soils
 
Learning outcomes
 
Elastic stresses and strains
 
Friction
 
Complex stress
 
The Mohr circle diagram
 
Cohesion
 
Coulomb's law of soil shear strength
 
Modified Coulomb's law
 
The Mohr-Coulomb yield theory
 
Determination of the shear strength parameters
 
Determination of the shear strength parameters from triaxial testing
 
The pore pressure coefficients A and B
 
The triaxial extension test
 
Behaviour of soils under shear
 
Operative strengths of soils
 
The critical state
 
Sensitivity of clays
 
Residual strength of soil
 
Exercises
 
Part II Geotechnical codes and standards and site investigation
 
5 stress paths and critical state
 
Stress paths in two-dimensional space
 
Stress paths in three-dimensional space
 
Isotropic consolidation
 
Stress paths in the triaxial apparatus
 
Exercises
 
6 Eurocode 7
 
Introduction to the Structural Eurocodes
 
Introduction to Eurocode 7
 
Using Eurocode 7: basis of geotechnical design
 
Geotechnical design by calculation
 
Ultimate limit states
 
The EQU limit state
 
The GEO limit state and Design Approaches
 
Serviceability limit states
 
Geotechnical design report
 
7 Site Investigation
 
EN 1997-2:2007 - Ground investigation and testing
 
Planning of ground investigations
 
Site exploration methods
 
Soil and rock sampling
 
Groundwater measurements
 
Field tests in soil and rock
 
Geotechnical reports
 
Part III Advanced soil mechanics and applications
 
8 Lateral Earth Pressure
 
Learning outcomes
 
Earth pressure at rest
 
Active and passive earth pressure
 
Rankine's theory: granular soils, active earth pressure
 
Rankine's theory: granular soils, passive earth pressure
 
Rankine's theory: cohesive soils
 
Coulomb's wedge theory: active earth pressure
 
Coulomb's wedge theory: passive earth pressure
 
Surcharges
 
Choice of method for determination of active pressure

About the author

Ian Smith is an internationally recognized, senior academic with 6 years of Head/Dean of School experience and 25 years of teaching experience in Geotechnical Engineering. In 2017 he left his senior academic position at Edinburgh Napier University to establish his own consultancy and offer freelance services to geotechnical engineering and to education.

Summary

Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics

The revised 10th edition of the core textbook on soil mechanics

The revised and updated edition of Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics continues to offer a core undergraduate textbook on soil mechanics. The author, a noted expert in geotechnical engineering, reviews all aspects of soil mechanics and provides a detailed explanation of how to use both the current and the next versions of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes accessible explanations, helpful illustrations, and worked examples and covers a wide range of topics including slope stability, retaining walls and shallow and deep foundations.

The text is updated throughout to include additional material and more worked examples that clearly illustrate the processes for performing testing and design to the new European standards. In addition, the book's accessible format provides the information needed to understand how to use the first and second generations of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. The second generation of this key design code has seen a major revision and the author explains the new methodology well, and has provided many worked examples to illustrate the design procedures. The new edition also contains a new chapter on constitutive modeling in geomechanics and updated information on the strength of soils, highway design and laboratory and field testing. This important text:
* Includes updated content throughout with a new chapter on constitutive modeling
* Provides explanation on geotechnical design to the new version of Eurocode 7
* Presents enhanced information on laboratory and field testing and the new approach to pavement foundation design
* Provides learning outcomes, real-life examples, and self-learning exercises within each chapter
* Offers a companion website with downloadable video tutorials, animations, spreadsheets and additional teaching materials

Written for students of civil engineering and geotechnical engineering, Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics, 10th Edition covers the fundamental changes in the ethos of geotechnical design advocated in the Eurocode 7.

Product details

• Authors: I Smith, Ian Smith, Ian (Head of the School of Engineering and Smith
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781119750390
• ISBN: 978-1-119-75039-0
• No. of pages: 704
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Grundbau, Bodenmechanik, Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen, Civil Engineering & Construction, Soil Constructions & Geotechnics, Grundbau / Geotechnik