Applied geotechnics for construction projects . Volume 2 : fundamental principles of soil mechanics and the role of water / / Ammar Dhouib

• Autore: Dhouib Ammar
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, NJ : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 pages)
• Disciplina: 624.151
• Soggetto topico: Geotechnical engineering; Soil mechanics
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Entrepreneur's Tribune: Geotechnics is at the Heart of Our Projects -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Symbols and Notations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Soil Hydraulics: On-Site Water Tests -- 1.1. Water in the soil: basics -- 1.1.1. General assumptions: water continuity condition in soil -- 1.1.2. Water velocity in soil -- 1.2. Darcy's law -- 1.2.1. Head of water -- 1.2.2. Hydraulic gradient -- 1.3. Generalization to flow networks -- 1.3.1. Three-dimensional medium: Laplace equation -- 1.3.2. Two-dimensional flow -- 1.4. Flow forces -- 1.4.1. Determination of flow forces -- 1.4.2. Critical gradient: boiling phenomenon -- 1.4.3. Role of pore pressures in soil -- 1.5. On-site measurement of soil permeabilities -- 1.5.1. Pumping test -- 1.5.2. Lefranc-type local permeability test -- 1.5.3. Lugeon tests: experimental analysis and practical interpretation -- 1.5.4. General conclusion -- 1.6. Practical applications -- 1.6.1. Interpretation of an actual pumping test -- 1.6.2. Interpretation of a real Lefranc-type test -- 1.6.3. Practical application of a Lugeon test -- 1.6.4. Experimental data: permeability of soils -- 1.6.5. Soil water level measurements: piezometers -- 1.6.6. Micro-reel permeability measurements -- 1.7. References -- Chapter 2. Fundamental Principles of Soil Mechanics -- 2.1. Short-term and long-term soil behaviors -- 2.1.1. Concepts of short-term and long-term -- 2.1.2. Concepts of soil friction and cohesion -- 2.2. Soil consolidation and settlement -- 2.2.1. Preamble -- 2.2.2. Mechanical analogy -- 2.2.3. Oedometer tests -- 2.2.4. Terzaghi consolidation theory -- 2.2.5. Practical correlations between compressibility and creep parameters -- 2.3. Shear strength of soil -- 2.3.1. Preamble -- 2.3.2. Shear strength of granular soil -- 2.3.3. Shear strength of fine soil. ; 2.3.4. Residual shear strength of soil -- 2.3.5. Corresponding states theorem -- 2.4. Swelling-shrinkage of clay soil -- 2.4.1. Preamble -- 2.4.2. Swelling-shrinkage mechanism -- 2.4.3. Geotechnical survey and diagnosis methodology -- 2.4.4. In the event of damage due to draught: structural solutions -- 2.5. Slope stability -- 2.5.1. Preamble -- 2.5.2. Landslide modes and their origins -- 2.5.3. Failure mechanisms -- 2.5.4. Stability calculation approaches -- 2.5.5. Studies and practical calculations of stability -- 2.5.6. Solutions for improving stability by water evacuation -- 2.6. Conventional safety coefficients -- 2.6.1. Definition of safety coefficient -- 2.6.2. Conventional values -- 2.7. Applications -- 2.7.1. Study of an embankment on soft soil: calculation of bearing capacity and settlements -- 2.7.2. Analysis of damage to a pavilion due to the swelling/shrinkage of clay -- 2.7.3. Parametric study of typical case stability -- 2.7.4. Correlations between compressibility parameters and test validity -- 2.7.5. Correlations between shear parameters -- 2.8. References -- Chapter 3. Geotechnical Expertise -- 3.1. Preamble -- 3.2. Expertise on actual project cases -- 3.2.1. Housing project -- 3.2.2. Hospital center project -- 3.2.3. The issue of water -- 3.2.4. Predictions and measurements of the settlements of a thick raft of an HRB tower -- 3.2.5. Failure in a nailed wall of a motorway structure -- 3.3. Judicial expertise -- 3.3.1. Judicial expertise and the justice expert -- 3.3.2. Some cases of judicial expertise -- 3.4. Examples of rehabilitation (load balance) -- 3.4.1. Rehabilitation of a building on isolated footing -- 3.4.2. Rehabilitation of building on piles -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. References -- French, European and ISO Standards in the Field of Geotechnics -- Index -- Summaries of Other Volumes -- EULA.
• Titolo autorizzato: Applied geotechnics for construction projects
• ISBN: 1-394-19225-8; 1-394-19223-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830133803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II