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About the BookAbout the AuthorTable of Contents

Geotechnical Engineering combines in a single book, the theoretical aspects (Soil Mechanics) as well as the applications (Foundation Engineering). The author, with his long experience of undergraduate teaching, felt the need for a comprehensive textbook on Geotechnical Engineering that would efficiently cater to all the basic requirements of undergraduate students and proceeded to fill the gap. The lucid explanations in the book are strengthened by:

• extensive use of figures and graphs,

• citing of examples, even from fields outside Geotechnical Engineering,

• for better understanding of the basic ideas and principles,

• solved numerical problems carefully designed to strengthen understanding,

• inclusion of emerging areas of Geotechnical Engineering such as geosynthesis,
geotechnical earthquake engineering and environmental geotechniques. For additional material, please visit http://www.universitiespress.com/debashismoitra/gte

Debashis Moitra is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. He has had a distinguished academic career with his teaching experience spanning over 30 years. He is the author of one other book and several articles in reputed scientific journals.

Preface

Notations and units of measurement

1. Origin, Formation and Nature of Soils

2. Functional Relationships

3. Index Properties

4. Effective Stress

5. Permeability

6. Seepage and Flownets

7. Stress Distribution

8. Consolidation

9. Compaction

10. Shear Strength

11. Earth Pressure

12. Retaining Walls

13. Sheet Piles

14. Stability of Slopes

15. Site Investigation

16. Bearing Capacity

17. Pile Foundation

18. Ground Improvement

19. Stone Columns

20. Geosynthetics

21. Expansive Soils

22. Environmental Geotechnology

23. Introductory Rock Mechanics

24. Machine Foundations

25. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

References

Index