Advanced Soil Mechanics by Braja M. Das

Preface The primary version of this e-book was revealed collectively by Hemisphere Publishing Company and McGraw-Hill Ebook Firm of New York with a 1983 copyright. The second version had a 1997 copyright and was revealed by Taylor and Francis. This version basically is designed for readers on the similar stage. In comparison with the second version, following are the foremost modifications.

• Chapter 1 has been renamed as “Soil combination, plasticity, and classification.” It contains extra discussions on clay minerals, nature of water in clay, repulsive potential and stress in clay, and weight–quantity relationships.

• Chapter 3 has also been renamed “Stresses and displacements in a soil mass.” It contains relationships to guage displacements in a semi-infinite elastic medium on account of numerous kinds of loading along with these to estimate stress.

• Chapter 4 on “Pore water stress on account of undrained loading” discusses the directional variation of pore water stress parameter A on anisotropy in cohesive soils.

• Chapter 5 on “Permeability and seepage” has new materials to estimate the coefficient of permeability in granular soil utilizing the Kozeny– Carman equation. The matters of electroosmosis and electroosmotic coefficient of permeability have been mentioned.

• Options for one-dimensional consolidation utilizing viscoelastic mannequin has been offered in Chapter 6 on “Consolidation.”

. • Chapter 7 on “Shear energy of soils” has extra detailed discussions on the consequences of temperature, anisotropy, and pressure price on clay’s undrained shear energy. A brand new part on creep in soil utilizing the rate-process concept has been added.

• Chapter 8 has been renamed as “Settlement of shallow foundations.” More modern theories accessible in the literature on the elastic settlement have been summarized.

• SI items have been used throughout the textual content and the issues. I’m indebted to my spouse Janice for her assistance in preparing the revised manuscript. She ready all the brand new and revised paintings for this version. I might additionally prefer to thank Tony Moore, Senior Editor, and Eleanor Rivers, Commissioning Editor of Taylor and Francis, for working with me throughout your entire publication means of this e-book.

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Author(s): Das, Braja M

Publisher: CRC Press, Year: 2013

ISBN: 978-1-4822-3483-1,1482234831