Day, Robert W. <br/><br/>
Geotechnical engineer's portable handbook  with the 2012 international building code /  [electronic resource] : 
Robert W. Day. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New York :  McGraw-Hill,  c2013. 
 - 1 electronic text (1 v. (various pagings)) :  ill. 
 - McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering .
 - McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering. .
<br/><br/> Also includes: Examples of grading specifications and foundation engineering report; Percolation test procedures; Conversion factors; Example problems and solutions.  Print version c2012. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780071789714 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Engineering geology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Civil engineering.<br/>Construction industry--Standards.<br/>Standards, Engineering.<br/>Building laws.<br/>Soils--Testing.<br/>Subsoils--Testing.<br/>Soil mechanics.<br/>Soils--Classification.<br/>Rocks--Classification.<br/>Stress distribution.<br/>Shear strength of soils.<br/>Soil consolidation.<br/>Swelling soils.<br/>Slopes (Soil mechanics)--Stability.<br/>Earthquake engineering.<br/>Soil conservation.<br/>Retaining walls.<br/>Concrete--Deterioration.<br/>Foundations--Deterioration.<br/>Grading (Earthwork)<br/>Excavation.<br/>Geosynthetics.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TA705  / .D297 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>624.1/51