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The fifth edition of this established textbook offers a well-tailored resource for graduate students in geotechnical engineering, bridging the gap between undergraduate basics and leading-edge graduate level. Updated material on consolidation, shear strength of soils, and both elastic and consolidation settlements of shallow foundations.
List of contents
1. Soil aggregate, plasticity, and classification 2. Stresses and strains: Elastic equilibrium 3. Stresses and displacements in a soil mass: Two-dimensional problems 4. Stresses and displacements in a soil mass: Three-dimensional problems 5. Pore water pressure due to undrained loading 6. Permeability 7. Seepage 8. Consolidation 9. Shear strength of soils 10. Elastic settlement of shallow foundations 11. Consolidation settlement of shallow foundations
About the author
Braja Das is the Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, USA. He is a Fellow and Life Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Life Member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and an Emeritus Member of TRB’s AFS-80 Committee on Stabilization of Geomaterials and Stabilized Materials.
Professor Das is the author or coauthor of several textbooks and reference books in the area of geotechnical engineering, and he is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering.
Summary
The fifth edition of this established textbook offers a well-tailored resource for graduate students in geotechnical engineering, bridging the gap between undergraduate basics and leading-edge graduate level. Updated material on consolidation, shear strength of soils, and both elastic and consolidation settlements of shallow foundations.
