Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Covering modern developments in the design of drilled pier foundations and mechanically stabilized earth retaining walls, Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering explores a pioneering approach for predicting the nonlinear behavior of laterally loaded long vertical and batter piles. Well-suited for use as a textbook and a professional reference, the book discusses soil formation, index properties, classification, soil permeability, seepage, the effect of water on stress conditions, stresses due to surface loads, soil compressibility and consolidation, and shear strength characteristics of soils.V.N.S. Murthy is the author of 'Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering)', published 2002 under ISBN 9780824708733 and ISBN 0824708733.