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This book is intended as the text for the introductory course of Soil Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. It contains an introduction into the major principles and methods of soil mechanics, such as the analysis of stresses, deformations, and stability. The most important methods of determining soil parameters, in the laboratory and in situ, are also described. Some basic principles of applied mechanics that arc frequently used arc presented in Appendices. The subdivision into chapters is such that one chapter can be treated in a single lecture, approximately.
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SOIL MECHANICS Arnold Verruijt Delft University of Technology, 2001
This is the screenbook version of the book on SOIL MECHANICS, used at the Delft University of Technology. It can be read using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Menu bar and Tool bar can be shown by touching the ESC key. This book is also available in Dutch, in the file GRONDMECHBOEK.pdf A summary of the material, including graphical illustrations, is available in the program SOILMECH. Exercises are available in the series of programs SOLMEX1,....,SOLMEX7. These programs can be used as tests by entering the student registration number at Delft, or the name of the user. All this software can be downloaded from the site http://geo.citg.tudelft.nl/.
CONTENTS 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.