Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook |
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Author:
| Day, Robert |
ISBN: | 978-1-283-22150-4 |
Publication Date: | May 2014 |
Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $119.90 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionOne-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