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Craig's Soil Mechanics continues to evolve and remain the
definitive text for civil engineering students worldwide. It covers
fundamental soil mechanics and its application in applied
geotechnical engineering from A to Z and at the right depth for an
undergraduate civil engineer, with sufficient extension material
for supporting MSc level courses, and with practical examples and
digital tools to make it a useful reference work for practising
engineers. This new edition now includes: Restructured chapters on
foundations and earthworks, the latter including new material on
working platforms and collapse of underground cavities (sinkhole
formation). New mobilised-stress-based deformation methods that can
straightforwardly be used with both linear and non-linear soil
stiffness models and field measurements of shear wave velocity, for
serviceability limit state design. Extended sets of correlations
for making sensible first estimates of soil parameters, adding
deformation-based parameters for broader coverage than the Eighth
Edition. Extended section on robust statistical selection of
characteristic soil parameters. Greater use of consolidation theory
throughout in determining whether actions, processes and
laboratory/in-situ tests are drained or undrained. Extended chapter
on in-situ testing, adding the Flat Dilatometer Test (DMT), and
interpretation of consolidation parameters from CPTU and DMT
testing. An updated section on pile load testing. Additional worked
examples and end-of-chapter problems covering new material, with
fully worked solutions for lecturers. The electronic resources on
the book's companion website are developed further, with the
addition of two new spreadsheet numerical analysis tools and
improvement of existing tools from the Eighth Edition. Using these,
readers can take real soil test data, interpret its mechanical
properties and apply these to a range of common geotechnical design
problems at ultimate and serviceability limiting states.
Craig's Soil Mechanics continues to evolve and remain the
definitive text for civil engineering students worldwide. It covers
fundamental soil mechanics and its application in applied
geotechnical engineering from A to Z and at the right depth for an
undergraduate civil engineer, with sufficient extension material
for supporting MSc level courses, and with practical examples and
digital tools to make it a useful reference work for practising
engineers. This new edition now includes: Restructured chapters on
foundations and earthworks, the latter including new material on
working platforms and collapse of underground cavities (sinkhole
formation). New mobilised-stress-based deformation methods that can
straightforwardly be used with both linear and non-linear soil
stiffness models and field measurements of shear wave velocity, for
serviceability limit state design. Extended sets of correlations
for making sensible first estimates of soil parameters, adding
deformation-based parameters for broader coverage than the Eighth
Edition. Extended section on robust statistical selection of
characteristic soil parameters. Greater use of consolidation theory
throughout in determining whether actions, processes and
laboratory/in-situ tests are drained or undrained. Extended chapter
on in-situ testing, adding the Flat Dilatometer Test (DMT), and
interpretation of consolidation parameters from CPTU and DMT
testing. An updated section on pile load testing. Additional worked
examples and end-of-chapter problems covering new material, with
fully worked solutions for lecturers. The electronic resources on
the book's companion website are developed further, with the
addition of two new spreadsheet numerical analysis tools and
improvement of existing tools from the Eighth Edition. Using these,
readers can take real soil test data, interpret its mechanical
properties and apply these to a range of common geotechnical design
problems at ultimate and serviceability limiting states.
This book is intended primarily to serve the needs of the
undergraduate civil engineering student and aims at the clear
explanation, in adequate depth, of the fundamental principles of
soil mechanics. The understanding of these principles is considered
to be an essential foundation upon which future practical
experience in soils engineering can be built. The choice of
material involves an element of personal opinion but the contents
of this book should cover the requirements of most undergraduate
courses to honours level. It is assumed that the student has no
prior knowledge of the subject but has a good understanding of
basic mechanics. The book includes a comprehensive range of worked
examples and problems set for solution by the student to
consolidate understanding of the fundamental principles and
illustrate their application in simple practical situations. The
International System of Units is used throughout the book. A list
of references is included at the end of each chapter as an aid to
the more advanced study of any particular topic. It is intended
also that the book will serve as a useful source of reference for
the practising engineer. In the third edition no changes have been
made to the aims of the book. Except for the order of two chapters
being interchanged and for minor changes in the order of material
in the chapter on consolidation theory, the basic structure of the
book is unaltered.
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