Download or read book An Introduction to Triaxial Compression Tests of Soil written by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. and published by Guyer Partners. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory technical guidance for civil and geotechnical engineers interested in laboratory testing of soils. Here is what is discussed: 1. PRINCIPLES OF THE TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TEST 2. TYPES OF TESTS 3. APPARATUS 4. PREPARATION OF SPECIMENS 5. Q TEST 6. Q TEST WITH BACK-PRESSURE SATURATION 7. R TEST 8. S TEST 9. POSSIBLE ERRORS.
Download or read book Advanced Triaxial Testing of Soil and Rock written by Robert T. Donaghe and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the triaxial compression test is presently the most widely used procedure for determining strength and stress-deformation properties of soils, there have been no books published on triaxial testing since the 1962 second edition of the landmark work The Measurement of Soil Properties in the Triaxial Test by Bishop and Henkel. It is apparent there is a need to document advances made in triaxial testing since publication of Bishop and Henkel's book and to examine the current state of the art in a forum devoted solely to triaxial testing. Because of increasing versatility brought about by recent developments in testing techniques and equipment, it is also important that the geotechnical profession be provided with an up-to-date awareness of potential uses for the triaxial test."--Overview.
Download or read book Triaxial Testing of Soils written by Poul V. Lade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triaxial Testing of Soils explains how to carry out triaxial tests to demonstrate the effects of soil behaviour on engineering designs. An authoritative and comprehensive manual, it reflects current best practice and instrumentation.References are made throughout to easily accessible articles in the literature and the books focus is on how to obtain high quality experimental results.
Download or read book An Introduction to Laboratory Testing of Soils written by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. and published by Guyer Partners. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory technical guidance for civil and geotechnical engineers interested in laboratory testing of soils. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. INDEX PROPERTIES TESTS 3. PERMEABILITY TESTS 4. CONSOLIDATION TESTS 5. SHEAR STRENGTH TESTS 6. DYNAMIC TESTING 7. TESTS ON COMPACTED SOILS 8. TESTS ON ROCK.
Download or read book Laboratory Testing of Soils Rocks and Aggregates written by Nagaratnam Sivakugan and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains virtually all current laboratory tests for soils, rocks and aggregates in one volume with references to international standards: ASTM, ISRM, BS, and AS.
Download or read book An Introduction to Soils Engineering written by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. and published by Guyer Partners. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory technical guidance for civil and geotechnical engineers and other professional engineers and construction managers interested in geotechnical and soils engineering. Here is what is discussed: 1. BEARING CAPACITY ANALYSIS 2. DISTRIBUTION OF STRESSES IN SOIL 3. ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOIL AND ROCK 4. LABORATORY TESTING OF SOILS 5. SEEPAGE AND DRAINAGE 6. SETTLEMENT AND VOLUME EXPANSION 7. SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS 8. SOIL GROUTING.
Download or read book An Introduction to Soil Mechanics and Foundations written by C. R. Scott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is mainly intended to meet the needs of undergraduate students of Civil Engineering. In preparing the first edition of this book, I had two principal aims: firstly to provide the student with a description of soil behavior-and of the effects of the clay minerals and the soil water on such behavior-which was rather more detailed than is usual in an elementary text, and secondly to encourage him to look critically at the traditional methods of analysis and design. The latter point is important, since all such methods require certain simplifying assumptions without which no solution is generally possible. Serious errors in design are seldom the result of failure to understand the methods as such. They more usually arise from a failure to study and understand the geology of the site, or from attempts to apply analytical methods to problems for which the implicit assumptions make them unsuitable. In the design of foundations and earth structures, more than in most branches of engineering, the engineer must be continually exercising his judgment in making decisions. The analytical methods cannot relieve him of this responsibility but properly used, they should ensure that his judgment is based on sound knowledge and not on blind intuition. I hope that the book will prove to be of use to students when their courses are over, and help to bridge the awkward gap between theory and practice.
Download or read book Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing Soil Classification and Compaction Testing written by K. H. Head and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1980-07-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Engineering Properties of Soil and Rock for Professional Engineers written by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. and published by Guyer Partners. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory technical guidance for civil engineers, geotechnical engineers and construction managers interested in engineering properties of soil and rock. Here is what is discussed: 1. SCOPE, 2. COMPACTION CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL, 3. DENSITY OF COHESIONLESS SOILS, 4. PERMEABILITY, 5., CONSOLIDATION, 6. SWELLING, SHRINKAGE AND COLLAPSIBILITY, 7. SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS, 8. ELASTIC PROPERTIES, 9. MODULUS OF SUBGRADE REACTION, 10. COEFFICIENT OF AT-REST EARTH PRESSURE.
Download or read book An Introduction to Engineering Properties of Soil and Rock written by J. Paul Guyer, P.E., R.A. and published by Guyer Partners. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory technical guidance for civil and geotechnical engineers interested in engineering properties of soil and rock. Here is what is discussed: 1. SCOPE 2. COMPACTION CHARACTERISTICS OF SOILS 3. DENSITY OF COHESIONLESS SOILS 4. PERMEABILITY 5. CONSOLIDATION 6. SWELLING, SHRINKAGE, AND COLLAPSIBILITY 7. SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS 8. ELASTIC PROPERTIES 9. MODULUS OF SUBGRADE REACTION 10. COEFFICIENT OF AT-REST EARTH PRESSURE 11. PROPERTIES OF INTACT ROCK 12. PROPERTIES OF TYPICAL SHALES.
Download or read book Craig s Soil Mechanics written by Jonathan Knappett and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig’s Soil Mechanics continues to evolve and remain the definitive text for civil engineering students worldwide. It covers fundamental soil mechanics and its application in applied geotechnical engineering from A to Z and at the right depth for an undergraduate civil engineer, with sufficient extension material for supporting MSc level courses, and with practical examples and digital tools to make it a useful reference work for practising engineers. This new edition now includes: Restructured chapters on foundations and earthworks, the latter including new material on working platforms and collapse of underground cavities (sinkhole formation). New mobilised-stress-based deformation methods that can straightforwardly be used with both linear and non-linear soil stiffness models and field measurements of shear wave velocity, for serviceability limit state design. Extended sets of correlations for making sensible first estimates of soil parameters, adding deformation-based parameters for broader coverage than the Eighth Edition. Extended section on robust statistical selection of characteristic soil parameters. Greater use of consolidation theory throughout in determining whether actions, processes and laboratory/in-situ tests are drained or undrained. Extended chapter on in-situ testing, adding the Flat Dilatometer Test (DMT), and interpretation of consolidation parameters from CPTU and DMT testing. An updated section on pile load testing. Additional worked examples and end-of-chapter problems covering new material, with fully worked solutions for lecturers. The electronic resources on the book’s companion website are developed further, with the addition of two new spreadsheet numerical analysis tools and improvement of existing tools from the Eighth Edition. Using these, readers can take real soil test data, interpret its mechanical properties and apply these to a range of common geotechnical design problems at ultimate and serviceability limiting states.
Download or read book Correlations of Soil and Rock Properties in Geotechnical Engineering written by Jay Ameratunga and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a one-stop reference to the empirical correlations used extensively in geotechnical engineering. Empirical correlations play a key role in geotechnical engineering designs and analysis. Laboratory and in situ testing of soils can add significant cost to a civil engineering project. By using appropriate empirical correlations, it is possible to derive many design parameters, thus limiting our reliance on these soil tests. The authors have decades of experience in geotechnical engineering, as professional engineers or researchers. The objective of this book is to present a critical evaluation of a wide range of empirical correlations reported in the literature, along with typical values of soil parameters, in the light of their experience and knowledge. This book will be a one-stop-shop for the practising professionals, geotechnical researchers and academics looking for specific correlations for estimating certain geotechnical parameters. The empirical correlations in the forms of equations and charts and typical values are collated from extensive literature review, and from the authors' database.
Download or read book An Introduction to Geosynthetic Engineering written by Sanjay Kumar Shukla and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the use of polymeric materials in the form of geosynthetics has brought about major changes in the civil engineering industry. Geosynthetics are available in a wide range of compositions appropriate to different applications and environments. Over the past three to four decades, civil engineers have grown increasingly interested
Download or read book Earth Manual written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unsaturated Soils written by E. J. Murray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of the mechanical properties of unsaturated soilsis crucial for geotechnical engineers worldwide, as well as tothose concerned with the interaction of structures with the ground.This book deals principally with fine-grained clays and silts, orsoils containing coarser sand and gravel particles but with asignificant percentage of fines. The study of unsaturated soil is a practical subject, linkingfundamental science to nature. Soils in general are inherentlyvariable and their behaviour is not easy to analyse or predict, andunsaturated soils raise the complexity to a higher level. Evenamongst practicing engineers, there is often lack of awareness ofthe intricacies of the subject. This book offers a perspective ofunsaturated soils based on recent research and demonstrates howthis dovetails with the general discipline of soil mechanics. Following an introduction to the basic soil variables, thephases, the phase interactions and the relevance of soil structure,an up-to-date review of laboratory testing techniques is presented.This includes suction measurement and control techniques intriaxial cell testing. This is followed by an introduction tostress state variables, critical state and theoretical models inunsaturated soils. A detailed description of the thermodynamic principles asapplied to multi-phase materials under equilibrium conditionsfollows. These principles are then used to explore and develop afundamental theoretical basis for analysing unsaturated soils. Soilstructure is broken down into its component parts to developequations describing the dual stress regime. The critical statestrength and compression characteristics of unsaturated soils areexamined and it is shown how the behaviour may be viewed as athree-dimensional model in dimensionless stress-volume space. Theanalysis is then extended to the work input into unsaturated soilsand the development of conjugate stress, volumetric andstrain-increment variables. These are used to examine themicromechanical behaviour of kaolin specimens subjected to triaxialshear strength tests and lead to observations not detectable byother means. Unsaturated Soils: A fundamental interpretation of soilbehaviour covers a rapidly advancing area of study, researchand engineering practice and offers a deeper appreciation of thekey characteristics of unsaturated soil. It provides students andresearchers with a framework for understanding soil behaviour anddemonstrates how to interpret experimental strength and compressiondata. provides engineers with a deeper appreciation of keycharacteristics of unsaturated soils covers a rapidly advancing area of study, research andengineering practice provides students and researchers a framework for understandingsoil behaviour shows how to interpret experimental data on strength andcompression the limited number of books on the subject are all out ofdate
Download or read book The Deep Mixing Method written by Coastal Development Institute Tokyo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing population and increasing urbanization over the past century have made it difficult to locate suitable ground for siting infrastructures in densely populated areas. The Deep Mixing Method (DMM) was developed and put into practice in Japan in 1975 to cope with the headaches of stability and/or excessive settlement in soft soil areas. This method involves using cement and/or lime as a soil stabilizer, added in-situ to deep soils, and has now been adopted not only in Japan but in the USA and other parts of the world as well. This book presents properties of this treated soil method, its various applications, its design and execution, and accumulated research results over the last twenty-five years.
Download or read book Unsaturated Soils Two Volume Set written by Eduardo E. Alonso and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the development of unsaturated soil mechanics has been remarkable, resulting in momentous advances in fundamental knowledge, testing techniques, computational procedures, prediction methodologies and geotechnical practice. The advances have spanned the full spectrum of theory and practice. In addition, unsaturated materials exhibiting complex behaviour such as residual soils, swelling soils, compacted soils, collapsing soils, tropical soils and solid wastes have been integrated in a common understanding of shared behaviour features. It is also noteworthy that unsaturated soil mechanics has proved surprisingly fruitful in expanding to other neighbouring areas such as swelling rocks, rockfill mechanics, and freezing soils. As a consequence, geotechnical engineering involving unsaturated soils can be now approached from a more rational and systematic perspective leading towards an improved and more effective practice. Unsaturated Soils contains the papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soil (Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 September 2010). They report significant advances in the areas of unsaturated soil behaviour, testing techniques, constitutive and numerical modelling and applications. The areas of application include soil-atmosphere interaction, foundations, slopes, embankments, pavements, geoenviromental problems and emerging topics. They are complemented by three keynote lectures and three general reports covering general issues of modelling, testing and applications. Unsaturated Soils is a comprehensive record of the state-of-the art in unsaturated soil mechanics and a sound basis for further progress in the future. The two volumes will serve as an essential reference for academics, researchers and practitioners interested in unsaturated soils.
