Soil mechanics / by T. William Lambe and Robert V. Whitman

Includes Appendix and Index

PART I : Introduction -- Soil problems in civil engineering -- A preview of soil behavior -- PART II: The nature of soil -- Description of an assemblage of particles -- Description of an individual soil particle -- Normal stress between soil particles -- Shear resistance between soil particles -- Soil formation -- PART III: Dry soil -- Stresses within a soil mass -- Tests to measure stress-strain properties -- General aspects of stress-strain behavior --Shear strength of cohesionless soil -- Stress-strain relationships -- Earth retaining structures and slopes Shallow foundations -- Dynamic loading of soil -- PART IV: Soil with water - no flow with steady flow -- Effective stress concept -- One dimensional fluid flow -- Two dimensional fluid flow -- Soil permeability and filter requirements -- General aspects of drained stress-strain behavior -- Drained shear strength -- Stress-strain relations for drained conditions -- Earth retaining structures with drained conditions -- Earth slopes with drained conditions -- Shallow foundations with drained conditions -- PART V: Soil with water - transient flow -- Pore pressures developed during undrained loading -- Consolidation theory -- Drained and undrained stress-strain behavior -- Undrained shear strength -- Stress-strain relations for undrained conditions -- Earth retaining structures and earth slopes with undrained conditions -- Shallow foundations with undrained conditions -- Deep foundations -- The improvement of soil