The Engineering of Foundations, Slopes and Retaining Structures

ISBN-13: 9781138197633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 964 str.

Rodrigo Salgado

Opis

This rigorous textbook covers the construction, analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations, as well as retaining structures and slopes. It incorporates theory with practice, and emphasizes conceptual understanding. Estimation of soil parameters for use in design is given high priority. Illustrations, applications, and hands-on examples which continue across chapters are provided. It is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and will suit specialist practicing engineers and researchers. In this new edition:

• The basic soil mechanics is covered first, fully explaining drained versus undrained loading, phase transformation, development of peak q/p', and critical state and residual state development with sustained shearing.
• The LRFD approach to foundations, slopes and retaining structures is overhauled in the light of new research.
• Bearing capacity of shallow foundations and settlement calculation are replaced.
• recent research on piles and new design methods is incorporated, with new methods for both axially loaded piles and laterally loaded piles, although current practice is retained.
• Retaining structures and slopes are improved, with better discussion of limit states and the use of strength reduction in computational stability calculations.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.