Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook

Download or Read eBook Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook PDF written by Robert Day and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-12-02 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook
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Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages : 784
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ISBN-10 : 9780071777445
ISBN-13 : 007177744X
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Book Synopsis Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook by : Robert Day

Book excerpt: One-volume library of instant geotechnical and foundation data Now for the first time ever, geotechnical, foundation, and civil engineers...geologists...architects, planners, and construction managers can quickly find information they must refer to every working day, in one compact source. Edited by Robert W. Day, the time -and effort-saving Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook gives you field exploration guidelines and lab procedures. You'll find soil and rock classification, basic phase relationships, and all the tables and charts you need for stress distribution, pavement, and pipeline design. You also get abundant information on all types of geotechnical analyses, including settlement, bearing capacity, expansive soil, slope stability - plus coverage of retaining walls and building foundations. Other construction-related topics covered include grading, instrumentation, excavation, underpinning, groundwater control and more.


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