06889nam 2200553Ia 450 991080785750332120200520144314.01-282-77304-60-470-94311-40-470-64436-297866127730440-470-64438-9(CKB)4330000000002168(MiAaPQ)EBC589080(MiAaPQ)EBC4028012(Au-PeEL)EBL589080(CaPaEBR)ebr10412564(CaONFJC)MIL277304(OCoLC)667174048(EXLCZ)99433000000000216820100419d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierGeotechnical engineering in residual soils /Laurence D. Wesley1st ed.Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sonsc2010xv, 249 p. ill0-470-37627-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Geotechnical Engineering in Residual Soils -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF RESIDUAL SOIL BEHAVIOR -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 FORMATION PROCESSES AND BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RESIDUAL AND SEDIMENTARY SOILS -- 1.3 STRUCTURE OF RESIDUAL SOILS -- 1.4 SPECIAL CLAY MINERALS -- 1.5 THE INFLUENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY -- 1.6 GEOTECHNICAL ANALYSIS, DESIGN, AND THE ROLE OF OBSERVATION AND JUDGMENT -- 1.7 SUMMARY OF BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RESIDUAL AND SEDIMENTARY SOILS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2: EVALUATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND CLASSIFICATION OF RESIDUAL SOILS -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 PARENT ROCK AND THE SOIL PROFILE -- 2.3 INFLUENCE OF PARENT ROCK ON GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES -- 2.4 THE ROLE OF OBSERVATION -- 2.5 STANDARD INDEX TESTS -- 2.6 CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS FOR RESIDUAL SOILS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3: PORE PRESSURES AND SEEPAGE CONDITIONS ABOVE AND BELOW THE WATER TABLE -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 SITUATION AT LEVEL SITES -- 3.3 HILL SLOPES, SEEPAGE, AND PORE PRESSURES -- 3.4 PERMEABILITY OF RESIDUAL SOILS -- 3.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WATER TABLE (OR PHREATIC SURFACE) -- 3.6 IMPLICATIONS OF THE GROUNDWATER AND SEEPAGE STATE ABOVE THE WATER TABLE FOR PRACTICAL SITUATIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4: CONSOLIDATION AND SETTLEMENT -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 INTERPRETATION OF STANDARD OEDOMETER TEST RESULTS AND THE ''OMNIPOTENCE OF TRADITION'' -- 4.3 BEHAVIOR OF RESIDUAL SOILS -- 4.4 CONSOLIDATION BEHAVIOR AFTER REMOLDING -- 4.5 VALUES OF STIFFNESS PARAMETERS FOR RESIDUAL SOILS -- 4.6 TIME RATE AND ESTIMATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF CONSOLIDATION -- 4.7 RATE OF CONSOLIDATION FOR SURFACE FOUNDATIONS ON DEEP SOIL LAYERS -- 4.8 EXAMPLES OF SETTLEMENT ESTIMATES -- 4.9 ACCURACY OF SETTLEMENT ESTIMATES BASED ON OEDOMETER TESTS -- 4.10 ALLOWABLE DIFFERENTIAL SETTLEMENT FOR SURFACE FOUNDATIONS ON RESIDUAL SOIL.REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5: SHEAR STRENGTH OF RESIDUAL SOILS -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH -- 5.3 EFFECTIVE STRENGTH PROPERTIES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6: SITE INVESTIGATIONS AND THE MEASUREMENT OF SOIL PROPERTIES -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 APPROACHES TO SITE INVESTIGATIONS -- 6.3 ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS -- 6.4 PLANNING SITE INVESTIGATIONS -- 6.5 FIELD WORK -- 6.6 BLOCK SAMPLING -- 6.7 IN SITU SHEAR TESTS -- 6.8 LABORATORY TESTING -- 6.9 CORRELATIONS WITH OTHER PROPERTIES AND PARAMETERS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7: BEARING CAPACITY AND EARTH PRESSURES -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 BEARING CAPACITY AND FOUNDATION DESIGN -- 7.3 EARTH PRESSURE AND RETAINING WALL DESIGN -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8: SLOPE STABILITY AND SLOPE ENGINEERING -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 FAILURE MODES -- 8.3 THE PLACE OF ANALYTICAL AND NONANALYTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE STABILITY OF NATURAL SLOPES -- 8.4 APPLICATION AND LIMITATIONS OF ANALYTICAL METHODS -- 8.5 UNCERTAINTIES IN MATERIAL PROPERTIES -- 8.6 UNCERTAINTIES IN THE SEEPAGE AND PORE PRESSURE STATE -- 8.7 THE WORST-CASE ASSUMPTION REGARDING THE WATER TABLE -- 8.8 TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL INFLUENCE ON THE STABILITY OF A HOMOGENEOUS CLAY SLOPE -- 8.9 MODELING STABILITY CHANGES RESULTING FROM VARYING RAINFALL INTENSITIES -- 8.10 THE HONG KONG SITUATION -- 8.11 BACK-ANALYSIS METHODS TO DETERMINE SOIL PARAMETERS -- 8.12 SLOPE DESIGN -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9: VOLCANIC SOILS -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS -- 9.2 ALLOPHANE CLAYS -- 9.3 VOLCANIC ASH CLAYS DERIVED FROM RHYOLITIC PARENT MATERIAL -- 9.4 OTHER UNUSUAL CLAYS OF VOLCANIC ORIGIN -- 9.5 PUMICEOUS MATERIALS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: RESIDUAL SOILS NOT DERIVED FROM VOLCANIC MATERIAL -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION -- 10.2 WEATHERED GRANITE (GROUP 1 IN FIGURE 10.1) -- 10.3 WEATHERED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS.10.4 LATERITES AND TROPICAL RED CLAYS (GROUP 5 IN FIGURE 10.1) -- 10.5 BLACK OR BLACK COTTON CLAYS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11: COMPACTION OF RESIDUAL SOILS -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 SOME REFLECTIONS ON COMPACTION BEHAVIOR OF SOILS AND QUALITY CONTROL METHODS -- 11.3 OPTIMUM COMPACTIVE EFFORT AS WELL AS OPTIMUM WATER CONTENT -- 11.4 ALTERNATIVE COMPACTION CONTROL BASED ON UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH AND AIR VOIDS -- 11.5 THE USE OF SHEAR STRENGTH TO OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES IN COMPACTING RESIDUAL SOILS -- 11.6 HARD, PARTIALLY WEATHERED, RESIDUAL SOILS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX."Wiley has long held a pre-eminent position as a publisher of books on geotechnical engineering, with a particular strength in soil behavior and soil mechanics, at both the academic and professional level. This reference will be the first book focused entirely on the unique engineering properties of residual soil. Given the predominance of residual soils in the under-developed parts of the United States and the Southern Hemisphere, and the increasing rate of new construction in these regions, the understanding of residual soils is expected to increase in importance in the coming years. This book will be written for the practicing geotechnical engineer working to any degree with residual soils. It will describe the unique properties of residual soil and provide innovative design techniques for building on it safely. The author will draw on his 30 years of practical experience as a practicing geotechnical engineer, imbuing the work with real world examples and practice problems influenced by his work in South America and Southeast Asia"--Provided by publisher.Residual materials (Geology)Engineering geologyResidual materials (Geology)Engineering geology.624.1/51Wesley Laurence D522008MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807857503321Geotechnical engineering in residual soils835098UNINA