Soil mechanics

Verruijt A.

This book is intended as the text for the introductory course of Soil Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. It contains an introduction into the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, such as the analysis of stresses, deformations, and stability. The most important methods of determining soil parameters, in the laboratory and in situ, are also described. Some basic principles of applied mechanics that arc frequently used arc presented in Appendices. The subdivision into chapters is such that one chapter can be treated in a single lecture, approximately.

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Table of contents :
1. Introduction……Page 6
2. Classification……Page 13
3. Particles, water, air……Page 20
4. Stresses in soils……Page 26
5. Stresses in a layer……Page 32
6. Darcy’s law……Page 39
7. Permeability……Page 47
8. Groundwater flow……Page 52
9. Floatation……Page 61
10. Flow net……Page 67
11. Flow towards wells……Page 73
12. Stress strain relations……Page 77
13. Tangent-moduli……Page 84
14. Compression……Page 89
15. Consolidation……Page 96
16. Analytical solution……Page 102
17. Numerical solution……Page 110
18. Consolidation coefficient……Page 117
19. Secular effect……Page 122
20. Shear strength……Page 126
21. Triaxial test……Page 134
22. Shear test……Page 140
23. Cell test……Page 145
24. Pore pressures……Page 148
25. Undrained behaviour……Page 156
26. Stress paths……Page 162
27. Elasticity……Page 168
28. Boussinesq……Page 172
29. Newmark……Page 177
30. Flamant……Page 182
31. Layered soil……Page 187
32. Lateral stresses……Page 190
33. Rankine……Page 197
34. Coulomb……Page 206
35. Tables for lateral stress……Page 212
36. Sheet pile walls……Page 219
37. Blum……Page 229
38. Wall in layered soil……Page 236
39. Limit analysis……Page 241
40. Strip footing……Page 244
41. Prandtl……Page 250
42. Frictional materials……Page 255
43. Brinch Hansen……Page 258
44. Vertical slope……Page 265
45. Infinite slope……Page 270
46. Slope stability……Page 277
47. Soil exploration……Page 281
48. Model tests……Page 288
49. Pile foundations……Page 294
A. Stress analysis……Page 300
B. Theory of elasticity……Page 305
C. Theory of plasticity……Page 316
Answers to problems……Page 330
Literature……Page 335
Index……Page 336