Download Geotechnical Engineering Design Edit By Ming Xiao and Daniel Barreto
Contents Civil Engineering :
1- Introduction to Engineering Geology
2- Geotechnical Subsurface Exploration
3- Shallow Foundation Design
4- Introduction to Deep Foundation Design
5- Slope Stability Analyses and Stabilization Measures
6- Filtration, Drainage, Dewatering, and Erosion Control
7- Soil Retaining Structures
8- Introduction to Geosynthetics Design
9- Introduction to Geotechnical Earthquake Design
Preface Geotechnical Engineering Design :
This book presents the fundamental design principles and approaches in geotechnical engineering, including an introduction to engineering geology, subsurface explorations, shallow and deep foundations, slope stability analyses and remediation, filters and drains, Earth retaining structures, geosynthetics, and basic seismic evaluations of slope stability, lateral earth pressures, and liquefaction. It is intended for use as a textbook in the geotechnical design courses for senior undergraduate and M.S. graduate students. Therefore, the topics covered in this book are presented to meet this level. This book applies the principles of soil mechanics and focuses on the design methodologies in geotechnical engineering. The readers of this book are expected to have undertaken a soil mechanics course and already understood the principles of engineering properties of soils, stresses in soils, seepage in soils, soils shear strength, and consolidation.
The book was completed after I have taught geotechnical engineering for 9 years as faculty of civil engineering. Although excellent textbooks on the principles of geotechnical engineering and textbooks on foundation engineering are available to students, instructors and students have few options in selecting textbooks that cover geotechnical design aspects other than foundation engineering, particularly in senior undergraduate and M.S. graduate courses. This prompted me to embark on writing this textbook. While writing this book, I remained mindful of how a student can best and most easily grasp the content. Each chapter opens with an introduction on why the topic is important in the engineering practice, and graphical illustrations are appropriately included to offer visual images of the engineering applications. Ample graphical illustrations on field applications and design approaches are provided throughout the book. In Chapters 3–9 where designs are presented, a sample problem and its solution are included at the end of each topic. The homework problems at the end of each chapter are designed to test the student’s basic understanding of the concepts and design approaches and to challenge the student to solve real-world design issues
A unique aspect of this book is the inclusion of Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design, the European Standard for the design of geotechnical structures. The design approaches of many topics in this book use both allowable stress design (in the United States) and limit state design (in Europe), and two sets of solutions for many sample problems are provided to explain both the design methodologies. Both the America Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards and the British standards are referred to in Chapter 1 (Introduction to Engineering Geology) and Chapter 2 (Geotechnical Subsurface Exploration). The inclusion of Eurocode allows the international audience to preliminarily understand the commonalities and differences in geotechnical engineering designs on a global scale, particularly in Europe and North America.
Considering the targeted level of readers and the typical duration of a course in which this textbook would be used, some topics are not presented in great depth. For example, Chapter 3 (Shallow Foundation Design) and Chapter 4 (Introduction to Deep Foundation Design) present only the fundamentals of foundation design; the topic of drilled shafts is not presented. Chapter 8 (Introduction to Geosynthetics Design) presents only the basics of geosynthetics and three common field applications using geosynthetics: mechanically stabilized earth walls, reinforced soil slopes, and filtration and drainage. Chapter 9 (Introduction to Geotechnical Earthquake Design) presents the basic seismology and earthquake characteristics and three basic seismic evaluations: slope stability, lateral earth pressures, and liquefaction. Special topic courses on these individual topics may require other available textbooks.
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