A short course in foundation engineering

Noel E. Simons Bruce Keith Menzies

ISBN 10: 0727727516 / ISBN 13: 9780727727510

Verlag: Telford London : Reston, VA, USA, 2001

Beschreibung

244 pages Foundations. Civil engineering. Soil mechanics. Piling (Civil engineering) Earthworks. English Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. This book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right and then using them in practical applications.The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts. In this new edition, the original highly acclaimed text has been extended and updated and now includes major new sections on short term and long term stability, critical state interpretation of peak strength, seismic methods for measuring ground stiffness in situ, and offshore pile design: total stress and effective stress approaches.A.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10215627

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A short course in foundation engineering
• Verlag: Telford London : Reston, VA, USA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0727727516
• ISBN-13: 9780727727510
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2.
• Zustand: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
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Inhaltsangabe

Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. This book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right and then using them in practical applications.

The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts. In this new edition, the original highly acclaimed text has been extended and updated and now includes major new sections on short term and long term stability, critical state interpretation of peak strength, seismic methods for measuring ground stiffness in situ, and offshore pile design: total stress and effective stress approaches.A

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Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by hand-calculation has become vitally important. This book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right and then using them in practical applications.The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts.