Introduction to Soft Soil Geotechnique; Content, Context and Application







INTRODUCTION

Geotechnique comprises any aspect of geotechnical and environmental engineering in the areas of soil and rock mechanics, including material behaviour, analysis and interpretation, design, construction and monitoring. In this book, the focus is on the behaviour of soft soils, notably sand, silt, clay and peat.

The book reviews basic aspects of soil mechanics such as laboratory and fieldtesting,

stresses and strains,

deformation

and strength, and groundwater effects,



including environmental aspects. It touches

upon a wide range of applications of soil mechanics

in construction: prediction of settlements, bearing capacity of



shallow and deep foundations, piles and footings, stability

of earth retaining structures, analysis of slope stability,

principles of soft-ground tunnelling, ground



improvement techniques, and coastal and reservoir engineering. Fundamental

aspects of physical and numerical models and their application,

codes of practice and guidelines, principles of risk management

for handling uncertainty and


reliability, and a structural involvement of experience are discussed. At the end of

each chapter exercise applications are available; answers are compiled at the end.


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