Geotechnical Engineering Design

摘要

This is a first-edition textbook primarily intended for students taking a geotechnical course at university. The book covers the fundamental principles and methodology behind geotechnical design and problem solving, although readers are expected to have already grasped some basics. The content of the book references both European and US codes of practice throughout. Both allowable stress design (as used in the US codes) and limit state design (as used in Eurocodes) are explained in the text. Although there is a slight content bias, with many of the illustrations being US examples, generally two sets of solutions are supplied for the example problems, assisting the reader in understanding the differences and commonalities between the two. Metric units are used except on rare occasions.