Fundamentals of soil behavior / James K. Mitchell, Kenichi Soga.
Publication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2005.Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xiii, 577 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:- 0471463027 (alk. paper)
- 9780471463023 (alk. paper)
- 624.15136 22 MIT
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Soil behavior in civil and environmental engineering
Scope and organisation
Getting started
Chapter 2 Soil formation
Introduction
The earth's crust
Geologic cycle and Geological time
Rock and mineral stability
Weathering
etc.
Chapter 3 Mineralogy
Importance of soil Mineralogy in Geo-technical engineering
Atomic structure
Inter-atomic bonding
Secondary bonds
Crystals notation
etc.
Chapter 4 Soil composition and engineering proerties
Introduction
Approaches to the study of composition and property
interrelationships
Engineering properties of granular soils
Dominating influence of the clay phase
Atterberg limits
etc.
Chapter 5 Soil fabric and measurement
Introduction
Definition of fabrics and fabric elements
Single- grain fabric
Contact force characterization using photoelasticity
Multigrain fabrics
etc.
Chapter 6 Soil-water -chemical interactions
Introduction
Nature of Ice and water
Influence of dissolved Ions on water
Mechanisms of soil-water interaction
Structure and properties of adsorbed water
Clay- water electrolyte system
etc.
Chapter 7 Effective, inter-granular and total stress
Introduction
Principles of effective stress
Force distributions in a particular system
inter-particle forces
inter-granular pressure
Water pressures and potentials
etc.
Chapter 8 Soil deposits- their formation, structure, geotechnical properties and stability
Introduction
Structure development
Residual soils
Surficial residual soils and taxonomy
Terrestrial deposits
etc.
Chapter 9 Conduction phenomena
Introduction
Flow laws and interrelationships
Hydraulic conductivity
Flow through unsaturated soils
Thermal conductivity
etc.
Chapter 10 Volume changes behavior
Introduction
General volume change in behavior of soils
Preconsolidation pressure
Factors controlling resistance to volume change
Physical interaction in volume change
etc.
Chapter 11 Strength and deformation behavior
Introduction
General characteristics of strength ans deformation
Fabric, structure and strength
Friction between solid surfaces
Frictional behavior of minerals
Physical interaction among particles
etc.
Chapter 12 Time effect on strength and deformation
Introduction
General characteristics
Time dependent deformation as a rate process
Bonding, effective stress and strength
Shearing resistance as a rate process
etc.
Includes references : p. 531-558
Index : p. 559 - 577
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