Geotechnical engineer's portable handbook [electronic resource] : with the 2012 international building code / Robert W. Day.
Series: McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineeringPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2013.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 electronic text (1 v. (various pagings)) : illISBN:- 9780071789714
- International Code Council. 2012 international building code
- Engineering geology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Civil engineering
- Construction industry -- Standards
- Standards, Engineering
- Building laws
- Soils -- Testing
- Subsoils -- Testing
- Soil mechanics
- Soils -- Classification
- Rocks -- Classification
- Stress distribution
- Shear strength of soils
- Soil consolidation
- Swelling soils
- Slopes (Soil mechanics) -- Stability
- Earthquake engineering
- Soil conservation
- Retaining walls
- Concrete -- Deterioration
- Foundations -- Deterioration
- Grading (Earthwork)
- Excavation
- Geosynthetics
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- TA705 .D297 2012
- Also issued in print.
eBooks
Also includes: Examples of grading specifications and foundation engineering report; Percolation test procedures; Conversion factors; Example problems and solutions.
Print version c2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Field exploration -- Laboratory testing -- Soil and rock classification -- Phase relationships -- Effective stress and stress distribution -- Shear strength -- Permeability and seepage -- Settlement analyses -- Bearing capacity analyses -- Pavement and pipeline design -- Expansive soil -- Slope stability -- Geotechnical earthquake engineering -- Erosion analyses -- Retaining walls -- Deterioration -- Foundations -- Grading and other site improvement methods -- Groundwater and percolation tests -- Excavation, underpinning, and field load tests -- Geosynthetics -- Instrumentation -- International building code regulations for soils -- International building code regulations for foundations.
Also issued in print.
Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Jan. 28, 2013.