Overview
- Presents soil mechanics from an engineering mechanics viewpoint
- Provides clear presentations, with worked examples, exercises, illustrations, and computer programs
- Includes references to additional material (illustrations, videos) on the internet
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 30)
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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About this book
This textbook offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure in civil engineering, and themes covered include stresses in soils, groundwater flow, consolidation, testing of soils, and stability of slopes.
Readers will learn the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, and the most important methods of determining soil parameters both in the laboratory and in situ. The basic principles of applied mechanics, that are frequently used, are offered in the appendices. The author’s considerable experience of teaching soil mechanics is evident in the many features of the book: it is packed with supportive color illustrations, helpful examples and references. Exercises with answers enable students to self-test their understanding and encourage them to explore further through additional online material. Numerous simple computer programs are provided online as Electronic Supplementary Material.
As a soil mechanics textbook, this volume is ideally suited to supporting undergraduate civil engineering students.
“I am really delighted that your book is now published. When I “discovered” your course a few years ago, I was elated to have finally found a book that immediately resonated with me. Your approach to teaching soil mechanics is precise, rigorous, clear, concise, or in other words “crisp." My colleagues who share the teaching of Soil Mechanics 1 and 2 (each course is taught every semester) at the UMN have also adopted your book.”
Emmanuel DetournayProfessor at Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Verruijt is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (KNAW) and an honorable member of the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI). In 1997, he was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Beatrix. At Delft University of Technology he was known as an excellent teacher,
for which he received the (first) Master Prize of the Delft University Foundation. In 2014, he received the Biot medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his pioneering contributions to the theory of poroelasticity.
He also acted as consultant on engineering projects, such as tunnels, river embankments and storm surge barriers, mainly in the Netherlands but also abroad.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Soil Mechanics
Authors: Arnold Verruijt
Series Title: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61185-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61184-6Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87022-9Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61185-3Published: 25 July 2017
Series ISSN: 0924-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 420
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 228 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Engineering, Hydrogeology, Soil Science & Conservation, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences