An Introduction to Soil Mechanics

1. Introduction

2. Classification

3. Particles, water, air

4. Stresses in soils

5. Stresses in a layer

6. Darcy's law

7. Permeability

8. Groundwater flow

9. Flotation

10. Flow net

11. Flow towards wells

12. Stress strain relations

13. Tangent modulus

14. One-dimensional compression

15. Consolidation

16. Analytical solution

17. Numerical solution

18. Consolidation coefficient

19. Creep

20. Shear strength

21. Triaxial test

22. Shear test

23. Pore pressures

25. Stress paths

26. Elastic stresses and deformations

27. Boussinesq

28. Newmark

29. Flamant

30. Layered soil

31. Lateral stresses

32. Rankine

33. Coulomb

34. Tables for lateral earth pressure

35. Sheet pile walls

36. Blum

37. Sheet pile wall in layered soil

38. Limit analysis

39.

40. Prandtl

41. Limit theorems for frictional materials

42. Bearing capacity

43. Vertical slope in cohesive material

44. Stability of infinite slope

45. Slope stability

46. Soil exploration

48. Pile foundations

Appendix A. Stress analysis

Appendix B. Theory of elasticity

Appendix C. Theory of plasticity

Answers to problems

References

Author Index

Subject Index