2nd Edition
The Engineering of Foundations, Slopes and Retaining Structures
2. Foundation Design
3. Soils, Rocks and Groundwater
4. Stress Analysis, Strain Analysis and Shearing of Soils
5. Shear Strength and Stiffness of Sands
6. Consolidation, Shear Strength and Stiffness of Clays
7. Site Exploration
8. Shallow Foundations in Soils: Types of Shallow Foundations and Construction Techniques
9. Shallow Foundation Settlement
10. Shallow Foundations: Limit Bearing Capacity
11. Shallow Foundation Design
12. Types of Piles and Their Installation
13. Analysis and Design of Single Piles
14. Pile Driving Analysis and Quality Control of Piling Operations
15. Pile Groups and Piled Rafts
16. Retaining Structures
17. Soil Slopes
Appendix A. Unit Conversions
Appendix B. Useful Relationships and Typical Values of Various Quantities
Appendix C. Measurement of Hydraulic Conductivity in The Laboratory Using the Falling-Head Permeameter
Appendix D. Determination of Pre-Consolidation Pressure, Compression and Recompression Indices and Coefficient of Consolidation from Consolidation Test Data
Appendix E. Stress Rotation Analysis
Biography
Rodrigo Salgado is the Pankow Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University, Editor in Chief of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, and author of over 150 journal publications, 100 conference publications, and 40 reports. He has supervised 30 Ph.D. students and was the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Sloan Best Paper Award, the ICE Geotechnical Research Medal, the Prakash Research Award, the ASCE Huber Research Prize, the ASCE Arthur Casagrande Award, and the IACMAG Excellent Contributions Award.
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