TY - BOOK AU - Day,Robert W. ED - McGraw-Hill eBooks. ED - International Code Council. TI - Geotechnical engineer's portable handbook: with the 2012 international building code T2 - McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering SN - 9780071789714 AV - TA705 .D297 2012 U1 - 624.1/51 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Engineering geology KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Civil engineering KW - Construction industry KW - Standards KW - Standards, Engineering KW - Building laws KW - Soils KW - Testing KW - Subsoils KW - Soil mechanics KW - Classification KW - Rocks KW - Stress distribution KW - Shear strength of soils KW - Soil consolidation KW - Swelling soils KW - Slopes (Soil mechanics) KW - Stability KW - Earthquake engineering KW - Soil conservation KW - Retaining walls KW - Concrete KW - Deterioration KW - Foundations KW - Grading (Earthwork) KW - Excavation KW - Geosynthetics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/browse/geotechnical-engineers-portable-handbook-second-edition ER -