Applied Geotechnics for Construction Projects, Volume 2: Fundamental Principles of Soil Mechanics and the Role of Water
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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Newark
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2023
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Englisch
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Entrepreneur's Tribune: Geotechnics is at the Heart of Our Projects -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Symbols and Notations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Soil Hydraulics: On-Site Water Tests -- 1.1. Water in the soil: basics -- 1.1.1. General assumptions: water continuity condition in soil -- 1.1.2. Water velocity in soil -- 1.2. Darcy's law -- 1.2.1. Head of water -- 1.2.2. Hydraulic gradient -- 1.3. Generalization to flow networks -- 1.3.1. Three-dimensional medium: Laplace equation -- 1.3.2. Two-dimensional flow -- 1.4. Flow forces -- 1.4.1. Determination of flow forces -- 1.4.2. Critical gradient: boiling phenomenon -- 1.4.3. Role of pore pressures in soil -- 1.5. On-site measurement of soil permeabilities -- 1.5.1. Pumping test -- 1.5.2. Lefranc-type local permeability test -- 1.5.3. Lugeon tests: experimental analysis and practical interpretation -- 1.5.4. General conclusion -- 1.6. Practical applications -- 1.6.1. Interpretation of an actual pumping test -- 1.6.2. Interpretation of a real Lefranc-type test -- 1.6.3. Practical application of a Lugeon test -- 1.6.4. Experimental data: permeability of soils -- 1.6.5. Soil water level measurements: piezometers -- 1.6.6. Micro-reel permeability measurements -- 1.7. References -- Chapter 2. Fundamental Principles of Soil Mechanics -- 2.1. Short-term and long-term soil behaviors -- 2.1.1. Concepts of short-term and long-term -- 2.1.2. Concepts of soil friction and cohesion -- 2.2. Soil consolidation and settlement -- 2.2.1. Preamble -- 2.2.2. Mechanical analogy -- 2.2.3. Oedometer tests -- 2.2.4. Terzaghi consolidation theory -- 2.2.5. Practical correlations between compressibility and creep parameters -- 2.3. Shear strength of soil -- 2.3.1. Preamble -- 2.3.2. Shear strength of granular soil -- 2.3.3. Shear strength of fine soil.
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