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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.
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Fundamentals of soil mechanics for sedimentary and residual soils
