Soil mechanics and foundations /
B. C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain & Arun Kumar Jain
- 2nd edition.
- Bangalore ; Chennai : Laxmi publications (P) ltd. c2005
- xxiv, 916 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 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
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 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