Pile Design and Construction Practice
Edition: 5 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780415385824
Subjects: Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Civil; Technology / Engineering / General; Engineering - General; Piling (Civil engineering)
First sentence: Pile are columnar elements in a foundation which have the function of transferring load from the superstructure through weak compressible strata or through water,onto stiffer or more compact and less compressible soils or onto rock.