Item #: 330-3027-05
ISBN: 0471463027
ISBN13: 978-0-471-46302-3
Author: James K. Mitchell, Kenichi Soga Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Format: Hardcover
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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
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
Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, 3rd Edition
