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Craig’s Soil Mechanics

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All chapters have been updated, several extended, and new chapters added to reflect the demands of
today’s engineering students and courses. It is still intended primarily to serve the needs of the undergraduate civil engineering student and act as a useful reference through the transition into engineering
practice. However, inclusion of some more advanced topics extends the scope of the book, making it
suitable to also accompany many post-graduate level courses.

The key changes are as follows:
●● Separation of the material into two major sections: the first deals with basic concepts and theories
in soil mechanics, and the determination of the mechanical properties necessary for geotechnical
design, which forms the second part of the book.
●● Extensive electronic resources: including spreadsheet tools for advanced analysis, digital datasets
to accompany worked examples and problems, solutions to end-of-chapter problems, weblinks,instructor resources and more, all available through the Companion Website.
●● New chapter on in-situ testing: focusing on the parameters that can be reliably determined using
each test and interpretation of mechanical properties from digital data based on real sites (which is
provided on the Companion Website).
●● New chapters on foundation behaviour and design: coverage of foundations is now split into three
separate sections (shallow foundations, deep foundations and advanced topics), for increased flexibility
in course design.
●● Limit state design (to Eurocode 7): The chapters on geotechnical design are discussed wholly
within a modern generic limit state design framework, rather than the out-dated permissible stress
approach. More extensive background is provided on Eurocode 7, which is used in the numerical
examples and end-of-chapter problems, to aid the transition from university to the design office.
●● Extended case studies (online): building on those in previous editions, but now including application
of the limit state design techniques in the book to these real-world problems, to start to build
engineering judgement.
●● Inclusion of limit analysis techniques: With the increasing prevalence and popularity of advanced
computer software based on these techniques, I believe it is essential for students to leave university
with a basic understanding of the underlying theory to aid their future professional development.
This also provides a more rigorous background to the origin of bearing capacity factors and limit
pressures, missing from previous editions.

I am immensely grateful to my colleagues at the University of Dundee for allowing me the time to complete
this new edition, and for their constructive comments as it took shape. I would also like to express
my gratitude to all those at Taylor & Francis who have helped to make such a daunting task achievable,
and thank all those who have allowed reproduction of figures, data and images.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Penerbit

London : Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group., 2012

Deskripsi Fisik

TA710.C685; 624.1’5136–dc23

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-203-86524-8

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Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

8th. ed.

Subjek

TEKNIK SIPIL

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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