В книге приводятся основные положения и зависимости современной механики грунтов, а также методы расчета, применяемые для определения напряжений по подошвам сооружений при заданной внешней нагрузке. Для облегчения практического пользования книгой при проектировании в ней помещен ряд таблиц и графиков справочного характера

Книга предназначена для инженеров-проектировщиков, студентов и лиц, самостоятельно изучающих механику грунтов

Постройка надземных сооружений и мостов в настоящее время немыслима без технологии строительных материалов и теории сопротивления материалов. В то же время научное вооружение инженера подземного строительства заключается лишь в наклонности к техническому грунтоведению, а содержание строительной механики грунта составляет только теория особенно простой частной проблемы статики песка, лишенного сцепления.

В настоящем, четвертом, издании книга вновь пере-работана и дополнена данными новейших экспериментальных и теоретических исследований в соответствии с запросами практики.
Для облегчения расчетов книга иллюстрирована вспомогательными таблицами и численными примерами, что дает возможность широко применять излагаемые методы исследовании в инженерной практике.
Книга предназначена в качестве учебного пособия для студентов гидротехнических и инженерно-строительных вузов и факультетов.

Книга содержит основы грунтоведения и механики грунтов и подробное изложение практики их применения к проектированию оснований и земляных сооружений.
Книга рассчитана на широкие круги инженеров-строителей и проектировщиков, а также на специалистов в области геотехники.

Soil Mechanics: Basic Concepts and Engineering Applications is primarily designed as a main text for university students taking first degree courses in civil engineering as well as environmental and agricultural engineering. Emphasis is placed on presenting fundamental behaviour before more advanced topics are introduced. The special structure of the book, embodied in each chapter, makes it possible to be used in two, three and four year undergraduate courses in soil mechanics. However, as new and advanced topics that extend beyond standard undergraduate courses are included, the book will also be a valuable resource for the practicing professional engineer. A problem solving approach is adopted through all chapters and 152 worked examples demonstrate the engineering applications, simulate problem solving learning and facilitate self-teaching. There are 113 unsolved problems with answers set for solution by students.

To the civil engineer, soil is any uncemented or weakly cemented accumulation of mineral particles formed by the weathering of rocks, the void space between the particles containing water and/or air. Weak cementation can be due to carbonates or oxides precipitated between the particles or due to organic matter. If the products of weathering remain at their original location they constitute a residual soil. If the products are transported and deposited in a different location they constitute a transported soil, the agents of transportation being gravity, wind, water and glaciers. During transportation the size and shape of particles can undergo change and the particles can be sorted into size ranges.

Soil can exist as a naturally occurring material in its undisturbed state, or as a compacted material. Geotechnical engineering involves the understanding and prediction of the behavior of soil. Like other construction materials, soil possesses mechanical properties related to strength, compressibility, and permeability. It is important to quantify these properties to predict how soil will behave under field loading for the safe design of soil structures (e.g. embankments, dams, waste containment liners, highway base courses, etc.), as well as other structures that will overly the soil. Quantification of the mechanical properties of soil is performed in the laboratory using standardized laboratory tests. <...>

Soils are a valuable resource and a critical component in many of the environmental and economic issues facing society today. Understanding soil properties and soil behaviour and interpreting soil data are especially relevant for many environmental and land management issues facing the community. These issues include urban development, control of salinity, clearing of native vegetation, prevention of land degradation, control of water and wind erosion, irrigation development, the management of effluent disposal, contamination and the management of acid sulfate soils.

Proper laboratory testing of soils to detennine their physical properties is an integral part in the design and construction of structural foundations, the placement and improvement of soil properties, and the specification and quality control of soil compaction works. It needs to be kept in mind that natural soil deposits often exhibit a high degree of nonhomogenity. The physical properties of a soil deposit can change to a great extent even within a few hundred feet. The fundamental theoretical and empirical equations that are developed in soil mechanics can be properly used in practice if, and only if, the physical parameters used in those equations are properly evaluated in the laboratory. So, learning to perfonn laboratory tests of soils plays an important role in the geotechnical engineering profession <...>