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About the author gerd gudehus studied civil engineering in berlin, where he also completed his doctoral thesis in soil mechanics. Fce 311 geotechnical engineering lecture notes final2. This book provides good illustrations for foundation design and properties of soil which make the aspirant easily grasp the concepts. Isbn 9783540363538, springerverlag berlinheidelberg 2011. The book includes over 160 fully solved examples, which are designed to illustrate the application of the principles of soil mechanics in practical situations. Isbn 9783540363538, springerverlag berlin heidelberg 2011. Except for viscosity and some streamlining, the essential features are already embedded in cssm. This textbook is written for an undergraduate course in soil mechanics and foundations. Application of soil mechanics history of soil mechanics importance of soil mechanics scope of soil mechanics soil mechanics and foundations soil mechanics book soil mechanics books soil mechanics pdf soil mechanics problems soil mechanics topics.
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Effective stress and equilibrium equation for soil mechanics discusses the definition of the soil skeleton at first and clarifies that the soil skeleton should include a fraction of pore water. Physical and geotechnical properties of soils bowles, joseph e. The book can be helpful to students who wish to specialize in geotechnical at examination level. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The book is divided into six chapters covering the stability of slopes, landslides, loadbearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations and pile foundations, soil mechanics in road construction, and the improvement of the physical characteristics of soil with special emphasis on machine foundations and earthquakes, giving detailed. Physical soil mechanics by gerd gudehus, paperback. Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering. Soil mechanics is the branch of mechanics that deals with the action of forces on soil masses. This book is the text for the introductory course of soil mechanics in the department of civil engineering of the delft university of technology, as i have given from 1980 until my retirement in 2002. The applicability of the numerical model is verified by laboratory tests using a.
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