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The improved, new edition of the classic book on the physical properties of soil,
Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, Third Edition is the thoroughly
updated, expanded, and revised edition of this highly
distinguished publication in geotechnical engineering. Filled
with useful tables and graphs illustrating correlations among
composition, classification, state, and static and dynamic
properties, this Third Edition continues the tradition of
providing the latest information on the physical properties of
soil and the fundamentals of its behavior over time.
Students and busy professionals will connect with this new
edition's timesaving, streamlined format and its greater
emphasis on practical exercise problems involving advanced
concepts of soil behavior. Other must-read features of this
Third Edition include:
- New, expanded material on micro-mechanical behavior at the
particulate level and its influences on engineering properties
at the macro-scale
A new chapter on time effects on soil deformation at different
stress and strain levels
- New coverage of such important topics as environmental
geotechnics, biological influences on soil behavior, soil
fracturing, the effects of time, and geochemical problems
- Sets of questions and problems at the end of each chapter, a
feature not available in prior editions
Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, Third Edition is an essential
text for graduate students and researchers as well as a peerless
reference for geotechnical, environmental, and civil engineers
and geologists
592 pp.
Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, 3rd Edition - Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Soil Behavior in Civil and
Environmental Engineering
- Scope and Organization
- Getting Started
- Soil Formation
- Introduction
- The Earth's Crust
- Geologic Cycle and Geological
Time
- Rock and Mineral Stability
- Weathering
- Origin of Clay Minerals and
Clay Genesis
- Soil Profiles and Their
Development
- Sediment Erosion, Transport,
and Deposition
- Postdepositional Changes in
Sediments
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Soil Mineralogy
- Importance of Soil Mineralogy
in Geotechnical Engineering
- Atomic Structure
- Interatomic Bonding
- Secondary Bonds
- Crystals and Their Properties.
- Crystal Notation
- Factors Controlling Crystal
Structures.
- Silicate Crystals
- Surfaces
- Gravel, Sand, and Silt
Particles
- Soil Minerals and Materials
Formed by Biogenic and Geochemical Processes
- Summary of Nonclay Mineral
Characteristics
- Structural Units of the Layer
Silicates
- Synthesis Pattern and
Classification of the Clay Minerals
- Intersheet and Interlayer
Bonding in the Clay Minerals
- The 1:1 Minerals
- Smectite Minerals
- Micalike Clay Minerals
- Other Clay Minerals
- Summary of Clay Mineral
Characteristics
- Determination of Soil
Composition
- X-ray Diffraction Analysis
- Other Methods for
Compositional Analysis
- Quantitative Estimation of
Soil Components
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Soil Composition And
Engineering Properties
- Introduction
- Approaches to the Study of
Composition and Property Interrelationships
- Engineering Properties of
Granular Soils
- Dominating Influence of the
Clay Phase
- Atterberg Limits
- Activity
- Influences of Exchangeable
Cations and pH
- Engineering Properties of Clay
Minerals
- Effects of Organic Matter
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Soil Fabric And Its
Measurement
- Introduction
- Definitions of Fabrics and
Fabric Elements
- Single-Grain Fabrics
- Contact Force Characterization
Using Photoelasticity
- Multigrain Fabrics
- Voids and Their Distribution
- Sample Acquisition and
Preparation for Fabric Analysis
- Methods for Fabric Study
- Pore Size Distribution
Analysis
- Indirect Methods for Fabric
Characterization
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Soil–Water–Chemical
Interactions
- Introduction
- Nature of Ice and Water
- Influence of Dissolved Ions on
Water
- Mechanisms of Soil–Water
Interaction
- Structure and Properties of
Adsorbed Water
- Clay–Water–Electrolyte
System
- Ion Distributions in
Clay–Water Systems
- Elements of Double-Layer
Theory
- Influences of System Variables
on the Double Layer
- Limitations of the Gouy–Chapman
Diffuse Double Layer Model
- Energy and Force of Repulsion
- Long-Range Attraction
- Net Energy of Interaction
- Cation Exchange-General
Considerations
- Theories for Ion Exchange
- Soil–Inorganic Chemical
Interactions
- Clay–Organic Chemical
Interactions
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Effective, Intergranular,
And Total Stress
- Introduction
- Principle of Effective Stress
- Force Distributions in a
Particulate System
- Interparticle Forces
- Intergranular Pressure
- Water Pressures and Potentials
- Water Pressure Equilibrium in
Soil
- Measurement of Pore Pressures
in Soils
- Effective and Intergranular
Pressure
- Assessment of Terzaghi's
Equation
- Water–Air Interactions in
Soils
- Effective Stress in
Unsaturated Soils
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
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- Soil Deposits-Their
Formation, Structure, Geotechnical Properties, And Stability
- Introduction
- Structure Development
- Residual Soils
- Surficial Residual Soils and
Taxonomy
- Terrestrial Deposits
- Mixed Continental and Marine
Deposits
- Marine Deposits
- Chemical and Biological
Deposits
- Fabric, Structure, and
Property Relationships: General Considerations
- Soil Fabric and Property
Anisotropy
- Sand Fabric and Liquefaction
- Sensitivity and Its Causes
- Property Interrelationships
in Sensitive Clays
- Dispersive Clays
- Slaking
- Collapsing Soils and Swelling
Soils
- Hard Soils and Soft Rocks
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Conduction Phenomena
- Introduction
- Flow Laws and
Interrelationships
- Hydraulic Conductivity
- Flows Through Unsaturated
Soils
- Thermal Conductivity
- Electrical Conductivity
- Diffusion
- Typical Ranges of Flow
Parameters
- Simultaneous Flows of Water,
Current, and Salts Through Soil-Coupled Flows
- Quantification of Coupled
Flows
- Simultaneous Flows of Water,
Current, and Chemicals
- Electrokinetic Phenomena
- Transport Coefficients and
the Importance of Coupled Flows
- Compatibility-Effects of
Chemical Flows on Properties
- Electroosmosis
- Electroosmosis Efficiency
- Consolidation by
Electroosmosis
- Electrochemical Effects
- Electrokinetic Remediation
- Self-Potentials
- Thermally Driven Moisture
Flows
- Ground Freezing
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Volume change behavior
- Introduction
- General Volume Change
Behavior of Soils
- Preconsolidation Pressure
- Factors Controlling
Resistance to Volume Change
- Physical Interactions in
Volume Change
- Fabric, Structure, and Volume
Change
- Osmotic Pressure and Water
Adsorption Influences on Compression and Swelling
- Influences of Mineralogical
Detail in Soil Expansion
- Consolidation
- Secondary Compression
- In Situ Horizontal Stress
(K0)
- Temperature–Volume
Relationships
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Strength And Deformation
Behavior
- Introduction
- General Characteristics of
Strength and Deformation
- Fabric, Structure, and
Strength
- Friction Between Solid
Surfaces
- Frictional Behavior of
Minerals
- Physical Interactions Among
Particles
- Critical State: A Useful
Reference Condition
- Strength Parameters for Sands
- Strength Parameters for Clays
- Behavior After Peak and
Strain Localization
- Residual State and Residual
Strength
- Intermediate Stress Effects
and Anisotropy
- Resistance to Cyclic Loading
and Liquefaction
- Strength of Mixed Soils
- Cohesion
- Fracturing of Soils
- Deformation Characteristics
- Linear Elastic Stiffness
- Transition from Elastic to
Plastic States
- Plastic Deformation
- Temperature Effects
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- Time Effects On Strength
And Deformation
- Introduction
- General Characteristics
- Time-Dependent
Deformation–Structure Interaction
- Soil Deformation as a Rate
Process
- Bonding, Effective Stresses,
and Strength
- Shearing Resistance as a Rate
Process
- Creep and Stress Relaxation
- Rate Effects on
Stress–Strain Relationships
- Modeling of
Stress–Strain–Time Behavior
- Creep Rupture
- Sand Aging Effects and Their
Significance
- Mechanical Processes of
Aging
- Chemical Processes of Aging
- Concluding Comments
- Questions and Problems
- List of Symbols
- References
- Index
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