Title:
Physical and geotechnical properties of soils / Joseph E. Bowles.
Author:
Bowles, Joseph E. author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-465).
Introduction to soil mechanics, statistics, and SI -- Soil properties: physical and index -- Soil tests for properties: index values and classification -- Soil classification -- Geological properties, formations of natural soil deposits, and groundwater -- Soil structure and clay minerals -- Compaction and soil stabilization -- Soil hydraulics, permeability, capillarity, and shrinkage -- Seepage and flow net theory -- Stresses, strains, and rheological concepts -- Consolidation and consolidation settelments -- Rate of consolidation -- Shear strength of soils -- Stress-strain characteristics and stresses at a point -- Soil stresses and soil pressures -- Stability of slopes.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0070067600
007066191X
Subject:
Soil mechanics.
M�ecanique des sols.
Soil mechanics.
Edition:
International student ed.
Contents:
Introduction to soil mechanics, statistics, and SI -- Soil properties: physical and index -- Soil tests for properties: index values and classification -- Soil classification -- Geological properties, formations of natural soil deposits, and groundwater -- Soil structure and clay minerals -- Compaction and soil stabilization -- Soil hydraulics, permeability, capillarity, and shrinkage -- Seepage and flow net theory -- Stresses, strains, and rheological concepts -- Consolidation and consolidation settelments -- Rate of consolidation -- Shear strength of soils -- Stress-strain characteristics and stresses at a point -- Soil stresses and soil pressures -- Stability of slopes.
Physical Description:
xii, 478 pages : illustrations ;
Publication Date:
c1979.
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