The primary intention of preparing this manual is to apprise the field staff engaged in this job on the objective of laboratory soil testing, which is required for the soil investigation work in civil engineering, or for building purposes and then to train them on practical soil testing in the laboratory.
Appropriate for courses in Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering or Seismology. This is the first book on the market focusing specifically on the topic of geotechnical earthquake engineering.
Geotechnical Engineering: A Practical Problem Solving Approach covers all of the major geotechnical topics in the simplest possible way adopting a hands-on approach with a very strong practical bias.
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This book serves as a framework for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and will appeal to professional engineers specialising in the offshore industry.
In addition to those already mentioned, we acknowledge our debt to Charles C. Ladd, T. William Lambe, W. Allen Marr, Richard de Neufville, Erik Vanmarcke, Daniele Veneziano, Robert V. Whitman, and the many graduate students of the ...
Hence, this handbook will present a useful tool for practicing pavement engineers.
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This book presents practical computational methods in concrete steps that can be followed by practitioners and students. It also provides geotechnical examples illustrating reliability analysis and design.
3.4.1.3 Mackintosh & JKR Probe According to Nixon (1989), one of the earliest forms of a light DCP was developed by F.H. Mackintosh in 1922 for “shallow testing” by “detecting changes in the hardness of strata from the speed of driving” ...