Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Geotechnical Engineering -- Definitions -- Qualifying Experience -- Project Requirements -- Proposals and Contracts -- Field Exploration -- Document Review -- Subsurface Exploration -- Soil Sampling -- Field Testing -- Exploratory Logs -- Geophysical Techniques -- Subsoil Profile -- Laboratory Testing -- Index Tests -- Oedometer Apparatus -- Shear Strength -- Permeability -- Laboratory Compaction Tests -- Laboratory Tests for Pavement Design -- Soil and Rock Classification -- Soil Classification Systems -- Unified Soil Classification System (USCS) -- Inorganic Soil Classification System Based on Plasticity (ISBP) -- AASHTO Soil Classification System -- USDA Textural Classification -- Organic Soil Classification -- Unusual Soil -- Rock Classification -- Phase Relationships -- Soil Element -- Phase Relationships Directly from Laboratory Testing -- Indirect Phase Relationships -- Example of the Calculation of Phase Relationships -- Effective Stress and Stress Distribution -- Effective Stress, Total Stress, and Pore Water Pressure -- Stress Distribution -- One-Dimensional Loading -- 2:1 Approximation -- Equations Based on the Theory of Elasticity -- Charts Based on the Theory of Elasticity -- Example of Calculations Using Various Stress Distributions -- Mohr Circle -- Shear Strength -- Cohesionless Soil -- Cohesive Soil -- Undrained Shear Strength -- Drained Shear Strength -- Drained Residual Shear Strength -- Factors that Effect the Shear Strength of Cohesive Soil -- Total Stress and Effective Stress Analyses.

'One-volume library of instant geotechnical and foundation data Now for the first time ever, geotechnical, foundation, and civil engineers...geologists...architects, planners, and construction managers can quickly find information they must refer to every working day, in one compact source. Edited by Robert W. Day, the time -and effort-saving Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook gives you field exploration guidelines and lab procedures. You'll find soil and rock classification, basic phase relationships, and all the tables and charts you need for stress distribution, pavement, and pipeline design. You also get abundant information on all types of geotechnical analyses, including settlement, bearing capacity, expansive soil, slope stability - plus coverage of retaining walls and building foundations. Other construction-related topics covered include grading, instrumentation, excavation, underpinning, groundwater control and more.' from publisher's description.

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