Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook

Day, Robert

ISBN 10: 0071351116 / ISBN 13: 9780071351119

Editore: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999

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Titolo: Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Professional

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: good

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Riassunto:

One-volume library of instant geotechnical and foundation dataNow for the first time ever, geotechnical, foundation, and civil engineers...geologists...architects, planners, and construction managers can quickly find information they must refer to every working day, in one compact source. Edited by Robert W. Day, the time -and effort-saving Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook gives you fieldexploration guidelines and lab procedures. You'll find soil and rock classification, basic phase relationships, and all the tables and charts you need for stress distribution, pavement, and pipeline design. You also get abundant information on all types of geotechnical analyses, includingsettlement, bearing capacity, expansive soil, slope stability - plus coverage of retaining walls and building foundations. Other construction-related topics covered include grading, instrumentation, excavation,underpinning, groundwater control and more.

L'autore:

Robert W. Day (San Diego, CA) has published over 200 papers, as is currently active on various committees with ASCE, ASTM, Tranportation Research Board, and received a design award from AIA. After completing his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering at Villanova specializing in Structural Engineering, he completed his masters in Civil Engineering and Engineer Degree at MIT.