Research Catalog

Title

Soil properties and behaviour / by Raymond N. Yong and Benno P. Warkentin.

Author

Yong, R. N. (Raymond Nen)

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

Warkentin, Benno P.

Description

xiii, 449 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Developments in geotechnical engineering ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Developments in geotechnical engineering ; 5.

Subject

• Soil mechanics
• soil mechanics
• Boden
• Physikalische Eigenschaft
• Sols, Mécanique des
• Boden

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [431]-439.

Contents

• NATURE OF SOILS: Origin of soil -- Soil classification -- Procedure for the mineralogical analysis of soils -- Particle-size composition of soils -- Basic soil properties -- CLAY MINERALS IN SOILS: Nature of clay minerals -- Clay minerals common in soils -- Identification of clay minerals -- Surface area of clays -- Water and ion adsorption at clay surfaces -- Interaction of clay particles -- Plasticity -- Rheotropy -- SOIL FABRIC AND STRUCTURE: Structure and fabric -- Granular soil packing -- Clay soil fabric -- Pore spaces and fabric -- Techniques for direct, fabric viewing -- Quantification of fabric -- Fabric characteristics from sedimentation -- Fabric alteration by compaction and compression -- SOIL WATER: Water content and its measurement -- The concept of soil-water potential -- Water retention in soils -- Measurement of soil-water potential -- Secondary effects on water retention -- Use of the potential concept -- WATER MOVEMENT IN SOILS: Saturated flow -- Unsaturated flow -- Moisture profiles and wetting front advance -- Measurement of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity, k or D -- Unsaturated flow mechanisms and behaviour -- Infiltration into soils in the field -- VOLUME CHANGES IN CLAY SOILS: Shrinking -- Swelling -- Volume changes in the field --
• CONSOLIDATION AND COMPRESSION: Consolidation of clay -- Laboratory consolidation test -- Time and load-deformation curves -- Soil structure in consolidation and compression -- YIELD AND FAILURE: Yield criteria -- Failure theories -- Laboratory triaxial test techniques for strength measurement -- Principal stress space and admissible yield or failure criteria -- GRANULAR SOIL STRENGTH: Friction properties -- Laboratory measurement of granular soil strength -- The intrinsic friction angle -- Volumetric strain -- COHESIVE SOIL STRENGTH: Pore-water pressure -- Analytical shear strength parameters (from Mohr-Coulomb failure theory) -- Mechanisms for development of shear strength -- Strength and soil structure -- Some methods and mechanisms for laboratory evaluation of strength parameters -- Yield and failure -- SOIL FREEZING AND PERMAFROST: Geothermal profile -- Freezing index -- Frost penetration -- Freezing in coarse-grained soils -- Freezing in fine-grained soils -- Heave and frost heaving pressures -- Unfrozen water in frozen soils -- Field frost heaving -- Thermal erosion.

ISBN

• 0444411674
• 9780444411679

LCCN

73085233

OCLC

• ocm01383402
• 1383402
• SCSB-9538496

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library