FOUNDATIONS, RETAINING AND EARTH STRUCTURES - THE ART OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION AND ITS SCIENTIFIC BASES IN SOIL MECHANICS

FONDATIONS, MURS DE SOUTENEMENT ET OUVRAGES EN TERRE-CONCEPT ET CONSTRUCTION ET BASES SCIENTIFIQUES DE MECANIQUE DES SOLS MECANIQUE DES SOLS

After making some general comments on foundations and the relations between structures, foundations and the soil, the author studies site investigation, identification and test methods, shallow foundations, and determination of deformations and settlement. One chapter deals with the improvement of the geotechnical characteristics of the soil, another is concerned with deep foundations (piles and caissons). A study is made of slope stability and unsheeted excavations, earth dams, seepage and capillarity, excavations in compressible soil, peat blasting, lowering of the water table, retaining walls, quays and sea structures, sheeted excavations and anchorages, cofferdams and tunnels. The last chapter deals with soil vibrations in relation to the design of foundations and vibratory driving of piles. The first edition of this book was published in 1951 under the title: "soil mechanics, foundations and earth structures". /TRRL/

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  McGraw-Hill Book Company Limited, England

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• Authors:
  • Tschebotarioff, G
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 672 p.
• Serial:
  • Publication of: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company Limited, England
  • ISSN: 1007-065377-1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cofferdams; Compressibility; Deformation; Design; Foundations; Ground settlement; Lowering; Pits; Retaining walls; Slope stability; Soil mechanics; Soils; Support piles; Surveying; Textbooks; Tunnels; Vibration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Site investigation
• ITRD Terms: 3442: Cofferdam; 5791: Consolidation (soil); 5595: Deformation; 3377: Foundation; 4395: Lowering (water table); 3399: Pile; 3359: Retaining wall; 5792: Settlement; 5722: Site investigation; 5783: Slope stability; 4156: Soil; 5755: Soil mechanics; 6255: Test; 8526: Textbook; 3374: Tunnel; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Geotechnology; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00125310
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chausees (LCPC)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Textbook
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 3 1975 12:00AM