| Preface | p. ix |
| About the Authors | p. xi |
| WAVÖ | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| General | p. 1 |
| Soils | p. 1 |
| Applications | p. 3 |
| Soil Testing | p. 3 |
| Geotechnical Literature | p. 4 |
| Numerical Modeling | p. 6 |
| Review Exercises | p. 8 |
| Phase Relations | p. 11 |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Definitions | p. 11 |
| Phase Relations | p. 13 |
| Worked Examples | p. 16 |
| Review Exercises | p. 22 |
| Soil Classification | p. 27 |
| Introduction | p. 27 |
| Coarse-Grained Soils | p. 27 |
| Fine-Grained Soils | p. 32 |
| Soil Classification | p. 37 |
| Worked Examples | p. 41 |
| Review Exercises | p. 44 |
| Compaction | p. 49 |
| Introduction | p. 49 |
| Variables in Compaction | p. 50 |
| Laboratory Tests | p. 52 |
| Field Compaction, Specification, and Control | p. 55 |
| Worked Examples | p. 59 |
| Review Exercises | p. 62 |
| Effective Stress, Total Stress, and Pore Water Pressure | p. 65 |
| Introduction | p. 65 |
| Effective Stress Principle | p. 65 |
| Vertical Normal Stresses Due to Overburden | p. 66 |
| Capillary Effects in Soils | p. 68 |
| Worked Examples | p. 70 |
| Review Exercises | p. 71 |
| Permeability and Seepage | p. 73 |
| Introduction | p. 73 |
| Bernoulli's Equation | p. 73 |
| Darcy'sLaw | p. 76 |
| Laboratory and Field Permeability Tests | p. 77 |
| Stresses in Soils Due to Flow | p. 81 |
| Seepage | p. 82 |
| Design of Granular Filters | p. 86 |
| Equivalent Permeabilities for One-dimensional Flow | p. 87 |
| Seepage Analysis Using SEEP/W | p. 89 |
| Worked Examples | p. 94 |
| Review Exercises | p. 103 |
| Vertical Stresses Beneath Loaded Areas | p. 115 |
| Introduction | p. 115 |
| Stresses Due to Point Loads | p. 116 |
| Stresses Due to Line Loads | p. 118 |
| Stresses Under the Corner of a Uniform Rectangular Load | p. 118 |
| 2:1 Distribution Method | p. 123 |
| Pressure Isobars Under Flexible Uniform Loads | p. 124 |
| Newmark's Chart | p. 124 |
| Stress Computations Using SIGMA/W | p. 129 |
| Worked Examples | p. 133 |
| Review Exercises | p. 136 |
| Consolidation | p. 139 |
| Introduction | p. 139 |
| One-dimensional Consolidation | p. 140 |
| Consolidation Test | p. 143 |
| Computation of Final Consolidation Settlement | p. 150 |
| Time Rate of Consolidation | p. 153 |
| Secondary Compression | p. 159 |
| Worked Examples | p. 165 |
| Review Exercises | p. 175 |
| Shear Strength | p. 181 |
| Introduction | p. 181 |
| Mohr Circles | p. 181 |
| Mohr-Coulomb Failure Criterion | p. 186 |
| A Common Loading Situation | p. 187 |
| Mohr Circles and Failure Envelopes in Terms of a and a' | p. 190 |
| Drained and Undrained Loading Situations | p. 191 |
| Triaxial Test | p. 193 |
| Direct Shear Test | p. 200 |
| Skemptons Pore Pressure Parameters | p. 202 |
| 1 - 3 Relationship at Failure | p. 205 |
| Stress Paths | p. 206 |
| Worked Examples | p. 210 |
| Review Exercises | p. 217 |
| Lateral Earth Pressures | p. 225 |
| Introduction | p. 225 |
| At-rest State | p. 226 |
| Rankine's Earth Pressure Theory | p. 230 |
| Coulomb's Earth Pressure Theory | p. 237 |
| Worked Examples | p. 240 |
| Review Exercises | p. 246 |
| Site Investigation | p. 251 |
| Introduction | p. 251 |
| Drilling and Sampling | p. 253 |
| In Situ Tests | p. 257 |
| Laboratory Tests | p. 276 |
| Site Investigation Report | p. 276 |
| Worked Examples | p. 280 |
| Review Exercises | p. 283 |
| Shallow Foundations | p. 289 |
| Introduction | p. 289 |
| Design Criteria | p. 290 |
| Bearing Capacity of a Shallow Foundation | p. 291 |
| Pressure Distributions Beneath Eccentrically Loaded Footings | p. 301 |
| Introduction to Raft Foundation Design | p. 304 |
| Settlement in a Granular Soil | p. 310 |
| Settlement in a Cohesive Soil | p. 319 |
| Worked Examples | p. 325 |
| Review Exercises | p. 334 |
| Deep Foundations | p. 341 |
| Introduction | p. 341 |
| Pile Materials | p. 342 |
| Pile Installation | p. 345 |
| Load Carrying Capacity of a Pile-Static Analysts | p. 347 |
| Pile-Driving Formulae | p. 354 |
| Pile Load Test | p. 355 |
| Settlement of a Pile | p. 357 |
| Pile Group | p. 361 |
| Worked Examples | p. 365 |
| Review Exercises | p. 373 |
| Earth Retaining Structures | p. 377 |
| Introduction | p. 377 |
| Design of Retaining Walls | p. 379 |
| Cantilever Sheet Piles | p. 385 |
| Anchored Sheet Piles | p. 395 |
| Braced Excavations | p. 399 |
| Worked Examples | p. 404 |
| Review Exercises | p. 415 |
| Slope Stability | p. 421 |
| Introduction | p. 421 |
| Slope Failure and Safety Factor | p. 422 |
| Stability of Homogeneous Undrained Slopes | p. 423 |
| Taylor's Stability Charts for c′-′ Soils | p. 427 |
| Infinite Slopes | p. 429 |
| Method of Slices | p. 432 |
| Stability Analysis Using SLOPE/W | p. 435 |
| Worked Examples | p. 443 |
| Review Exercises | p. 449 |
| Vibrations of Foundations | p. 453 |
| Introduction | p. 453 |
| Vibration Theory-General | p. 454 |
| Shear Modulus and Poisson's Ratio | p. 463 |
| Vertical Vibration of Foundations- Analog Solution | p. 465 |
| Rocking Vibration of Foundations | p. 469 |
| Sliding Vibration of Foundations | p. 475 |
| Torsional Vibration of Foundations | p. 478 |
| Review Exercises | p. 483 |
| Index | p. 487 |
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