Soil mechanics and foundations / B. C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain & Arun Kumar Jain

Contents
PART 1
ELEMENTARY PROPERTIES

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 soil and soil engineering
1.2 history of development of soil mechanics
1.3 field of soil mechanics, etc

Chapter 2 PRELIMINARY DEFINITIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
2.1 soil as a three phase system
2.2 water content, density and unit weights
2.3 specific gravity, etc

Chapter 3 DETERMINATION OF INDEX PROPERTIES
3.1 GENERAL
3.2 WATER CONTENT
3.3 SPECIFIC GRAVITY, ETC

Chapter 4

CLASSIFICATION OF SOILS
4.1 general
4.2 partial size classification
4.3 textual classification, etc

Chapter 5 SOIL STRUCTURE AND CLAY MINERALOGY
5.1 soil structure
5.2 solid particles in soils
5.3 atomic and molecular bonds, etc

PART II
SOIL HYDRAULICS

Chapter 6 SOIL WATER : EFFECTIVE AND NEUTRAL STRESSES
6.1 modes of occurrence of water in soil
6.2 adsorbed water
6.3 capillary water, etc

Chapter 7 PERMEABILITY
7.1 introduction
7.2 Darcy's law
7.3 discharge velocity and seepage velocity, etc

Chapter 8 WELL HYDRAULICS
8.1 introduction
8.2 some definitions
8.3 steady radial flow to a well : dupuits theory, etc

Chapter 9 SEEPAGE ANALYSIS
9.1 head, gradient and potential
9.2 seepage pressure
9.3 upward flow : quick condition, etc

Chapter SEEPAGE BELOW HYDRAULICS STRUCTURES
10.1introduction
10.2 piping : exit gradient
10.3 khosla's theory, etc

Chapter 11 DRAINAGE AND DEWATERING
11.1 introduction
11.2 ditches and sumps
11.3 well point system, etc

PART III
ELASTICITY APPLIED TO SOILS

Chapter 12 ELEMENTS OF ELASTICITY
12.1 state of stress at a point
12.2 equilibrium equations
12.3 equilibrium equations, etc

Chapter 13 STRESS DISTRIBUTION
13.1 introduction : stresses due to self weight
13.2 concentrated force: boussinesq equations
13.3 pressure distribution diagrams, etc

Chapter 14 STRESS DISTRIBUTION
14.1 vertical line load
14.2 horizontal line load
14.3 uniform vertical load over a strip, etc

PART IV
COMPRESSIBILITY

Chapter 15 ONE DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION
15.1 introduction
15.2 the consolidation process : spring analogy
15.3 consolidation of laterally confined soil, etc

Chapter 16 THREE DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION
16.1 introduction
16.2 three dimensional consolidation equation
16.3 consolidation equation in polar coordinates for axis symmetric case, etc

Chapter 17 COMPACTION
17.1 introduction
17.2 standard proctor test
17.3 modified proctor test, etc

PART V
STRENGTH AND STABILITY

Chapter 18 SHEAR STRENGTH
18.1 introduction
18.2 theoretical considerations : Mohr's stress circle
18.3 Mohr-coulomb failure principle, etc

Chapter 19 FAILURE ENVELOPES
19.1 introduction
19.2 the Mohr-coulomb failure envelope
19.3 the tresca failure envelope, etc

Chapter 20 EARTH PRESSURE
20.1 introduction
20.2 plastic equilibrium in soils : active and passive states
20.3 earth pressure at test, etc

Chapter 21 BULKHEADS AND COFFERDAMS
21.1 introduction : sheet-pile walls
21.2 classification of bulkheads
21.3 cantilever sheet pile wall, etc

Chapter 22 SHAFTS, TUNNELS AND CONDUCTS
22.1 stress distribution in the vicinity of shafts
22.2 stress distribution around tunnels
22.3 arching in soils, etc

Chapter 23 STABILITY OF SLOPES
23.1 introduction
23.2 stability analysis of infinite slopes
23.3 stability analysis of finite slopes, etc

PART VI
FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

Chapter 24 BEARING CAPACITY
24.1 definitions
24.2 minimum depth of foundation : Rankine's analysis
24.3 types of bearing capacity failures, etc

Chapter 25 SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS
25.1 types of foundations
25.2 spread footing
25.3 safe bearing pressure, etc

Chapter 26 PILE FOUNDATIONS
26.1 types of piles
26.2 pile driving
26.3 load carrying capacity of piles, etc

Chapter 27 WELL FOUNDATIONS
27. 1introduction : caissons
27.2 shapes of wells and component parts
27.3 depth of well foundation and bearing capacity, etc

PARTVII
PAVEMENT DESIGN

Chapter 29 DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT
29.1 introduction : types of pavements
29.2 structural elements of a flexible pavement
29.3 stresses in flexible pavement, etc

Chapter 30 DESIGN OF RIGID PAVEMENT
30.1 introduction
30.2 stresses due to rigid pavement
30.3 stresses due to wheel load, etc

Chapter 31 STABLISATION OF SOILS
31.1 introduction
31.2 mechanical stabilisation
31.3 cement stabilisation, etc

PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

Chapter 32 SITE INVESTIGATION AND SUB-SOIL EXPLORATION
32.1 introduction
32.2 site reconnaissance
32.3 site exploration, etc

Chapter 33 ADVANCED MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
33.1 electronic consolidation apparatus
33.2 electronic direct shear apparatus
33.3 electronic triaxle shear test equipment, etc

Chapter 34 REINFORCED EARTH AND GEOTEXTILES
34.1 Reinforced earth
34.2 Design of reinforced earth wall
34.3 Geotextiles : definition and types, etc

Includes references : p. 905-910 . _ Index : p. 911-916