Rodrigo Salgado

The Engineering of Foundations, Slopes and Retaining Structures (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition covers the construction, analysis, and design of shallow and deep foundations, as well as retaining structures and slopes. It includes complete coverage of soil mechanics and site investigations. It contains illustrations, applications, and hands-on examples that continue across chapters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 994
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351818360
• Artikelnr.: 63752116

Autorenporträt

Rodrigo Salgado is the Pankow Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University, Editor in Chief of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, and author of over 150 journal publications, 100 conference publications, and 40 reports. He has supervised 30 Ph.D. students and was the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Sloan Best Paper Award, the ICE Geotechnical Research Medal, the Prakash Research Award, the ASCE Huber Research Prize, the ASCE Arthur Casagrande Award, and the IACMAG Excellent Contributions Award.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The world of foundation engineering. 2 Foundation design. 3 Soils, rocks,
and groundwater. 4 Stress analysis, strain analysis, and shearing of soils.
5 Shear strength and stiffness of sands. 6 Consolidation, shear strength,
and stiffness of clays. 7 Site exploration. 8 Shallow foundations in soils:
types of shallow foundations and construction techniques. 9 Shallow
foundation settlement. 10 Shallow foundations: limit bearing capacity. 11
Shallow foundation design. 12 Types of piles and their installation. 13
Analysis and design of single piles. 14 Pile driving analysis and quality
control of piling operations. 15 Pile groups and piled rafts. 16 Retaining
structures. 17 Soil slopes. Appendix A: Unit conversions. Appendix B:
Useful relationships and typical values of various quantities. Appendix C:
Measurement of hydraulic conductivity in the laboratory using the
falling-head permeameter. Appendix D: Determination of preconsolidation
pressure, compression and recompression indices, and coefficient of
consolidation from consolidation test data. Appendix E: Stress rotation
analysis.