BOOK REVIEW

摘要

The authors have written an excellent, thorough, and very readable book on the soil mechanics laboratory tests usually performed at the undergraduate level. But this authoritative text is so much more than a book for undergraduate students: It contains a wealth of information for the student in geotechnical engineering, the professional engineer, and the laboratory technician who most often performs the tests for practical engineering projects. The authors' background stem from many years of work with and improvement of laboratory experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Fugro Consultants, Inc. in Houston. In addition, the senior author has been very active and provided much volunteer work in connection with developing test standards for ASTM Committee D-18 on Soil and Rock over the last 25 years.