Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics. Ian Smith

      

      Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Preface

      5  About the Author

      6  Notation Index

      7  About the Companion Website

      8  Part I: Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics Chapter 1: Classification and Physical Properties of Soils 1.1 Agricultural and engineering soil 1.2 The rock cycle 1.3 Clay soils 1.4 Field identification of soil 1.5 Soil classification laboratory testing 1.6 Soil classification and description 1.7 Soil properties Chapter 2: Permeability and Flow of Water in Soils 2.1 Subsurface water 2.2 Flow of water through soils 2.3 Darcy's law of saturated flow 2.4 Coefficient of permeability, k 2.5 Determination of permeability in the laboratory 2.6 Determination of permeability in the field 2.7 Approximation of coefficient of permeability 2.8 General differential equation of flow 2.9 Potential and stream functions 2.10 Flow nets 2.11 Critical flow conditions 2.12 Design of soil filters 2.13 Capillarity and unsaturated soils 2.14 Earth dams 2.15 Seepage through non‐uniform soil deposits Chapter 3: Stresses in the Ground 3.1 State of stress in a soil mass 3.2 Total stress 3.3 Pore water pressure 3.4 Effective stress 3.5 Undrained and drained conditions in a soil 3.6 Stresses induced by applied loads Chapter 4: Shear Strength of Soils 4.1 Shear strength of soil 4.2 Determination of the shear strength parameters 4.3 The pore pressure coefficients A and B 4.4 Behaviour of soil during shearing 4.5 Operative strengths of soils 4.6 Sensitivity of clays 4.7 Residual strength of soil Chapter 5: Stress Paths and the Critical State 5.1 Stress paths in two‐dimensional space 5.2 Stress paths in three‐dimensional space 5.3 Isotropic consolidation 5.4 Stress paths in the triaxial apparatus 5.5 Introduction to critical state soil mechanics 5.6 Undrained and drained planes 5.7 State boundaries 5.8 Residual and critical strength states

      9  Part II: Geotechnical Codes and Standards and Site Investigation Chapter 6: Eurocode 7 6.1 Preface to Chapter 6 6.2 Introduction to the Eurocodes Section A: Eurocode 7 – first generation (EN 1997:2004 and 2007) 6.3 Eurocode 7 – first generation 6.4 Geotechnical design by calculation 6.5 Ultimate limit states 6.6 The EQU limit state 6.7 The GEO limit state and design approaches 6.8 Serviceability limit states 6.9 Geotechnical design report Section B: Eurocode 7 – second generation (EN 1997: 202x) 6.10 Eurocode 7 – second generation 6.11 Basis of structural and geotechnical design – EN 1990:202x