num_pages: 288
description: Ideal for beginners SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS 8/e presents all essential aspects of soils and foundations in as simple and direct a manner as possible. Filled with worked examples step-by-step solutions and hands-on practice problems it emphasizes design and practical applications supported by basic theory. Throughout the authors promote learning through the extensive use of diagrams charts and illustrations. Coverage engineering properties of soil exploration compaction stabilization and consolidation; water in soil; subsurface stresses; settlement of structures; shear strength; shallow and deep foundations; lateral earth pressure; retaining structures and stability analysis of slopes. This edition's new coverage includes Pressuremeter and Dilatometer tests water flow characterization with Bernoulli's Theorem dewatering uplift pressure on dams and subsurface stresses caused by overlying soil masses.
language: English
title: Soils and Foundations
publisher: Pearson