520 Pages
by
CRC Press
520 Pages
by
CRC Press
520 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Established as a standard textbook for students of geotechnical engineering, this second edition of Geotechnical Engineering provides a solid grounding in the mechanics of soils and soil-structure interaction.
Renato Lancellotta gives a clear presentation of the fundamental principles of soil mechanics and demonstrates how these principles are applied in practice to engineering... Read more
Introduction
1. Nature and composition of soils
2. Principles of continuum mechanics
3. Constitutive models
4. The porous medium
5. Mechanical behaviour of soils
6. Flow in porous media
7. In situ investigations
8. The collapse of soil structures
9 Performance and serviceability of structures
Biography
Renato Lancellotta is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Director of the Geotechnical Laboratory and has been since 1990 Head of the Ph.D. Programme on Geotechnical Engineering at the Technical University of Torino, Italy. He was awarded the Bishop Research Medal (Institution of Civil Engineers, London) in 2003.
