Advanced Soil Mechanics Fifth Edition

Abstract

This textbook is intended for use in an introductory graduate level course that broadens (expands) the fundamental concepts acquired by students in their undergraduate work. The introductory graduate course can be followed by advanced courses dedicated to topics such as mechanical and chemical stabilization of soils, geoenvironmental engineering, finite element application to geotechnical engineering, critical state soil mechanics, geosynthetics, rock mechanics, and others. The first edition of this book was published jointly by Hemisphere Publishing Corporation and McGraw-Hill Book Company of New York with a 1983 copyright. Taylor & Francis Group published the second, third, and fourth editions with 1997, 2008, and 2014 copyrights, respectively. The book has a total of 11 chapters and an appendix. SI units have been used throughout the text. The following is a summary of additional materials given in this edition. • Several new example problems have been added. The book now has more than 100 example problems which help the readers understand the theories presented. About 70 additional line drawings have been added to the text. • In Chapter 1, “Soil aggregate, plasticity, and classification,” relationships for determination of liquid limit by one-point method from test results of fall cone have been added to Section 1.8.1. Section 1.13.1 provides several correlations for estimation of the relative density of granular soil. This section also has correlations between uniformity coefficient, angularity, and maximum and minimum void ratios of granular soil. Effect of nonplastic fines on maximum and minimum void ratios of granular soils is given in Section 1.14.1. • In Chapter 3, “Stresses and displacements in a soil mass—two-dimensional problems,” stress determination for vertical line load located at the apex of an infinite wedge is presented in Section 3.3. Section 3.7 provides stress relationships for horizontal and inclined line loads