Product Description: The definitive guide to unsaturated soil— from the world's experts on the subject This book builds upon and substantially updates Fredlund and Rahardjo's publication, Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils, the current standard in the field of unsaturated soils...read more

Product Description: Full-Scale Testing and Foundation Design, GSP XXX, honors Bengt H. Fellenius, Dr.Tech., P.Eng., for his noteworthy efforts to advance foundation engineering research, design, construction, and testing practices. From the beginning in Sweden of his 50-year career as a geotechnical engineer through nearly two decades as a professor of civil engineering at the University of Ottawa, Dr...read more

Product Description: Ask the Plant, based on the agronomy of K. Chandler, offers farmers and growers a better way to grow plants that involves reading the unique language of plants, utilizing leaf and petiole testing, and in turn knowing how to produce a better crop using only the fertilizers and soil-building ingredients that are truly needed, when they are most needed...read more

Product Description: Demanding a thorough knowledge of material behaviour and numerical modelling, site characterisation and in situ test interpretation are no longer just basic empirical recommendations. Giving a critical appraisal of the understanding and assessment of the stress-strain-time and strength characteristics of geomaterials, this book explores new interpretation methods for measuring properties of a variety of soil formations...read more

Product Description: Demanding a thorough knowledge of material behaviour and numerical modelling, site characterisation and in situ test interpretation are no longer just basic empirical recommendations. Giving a critical appraisal of the understanding and assessment of the stress-strain-time and strength characteristics of geomaterials, this book explores new interpretation methods for measuring properties of a variety of soil formations...read more

Product Description: This laboratory book reflects the most commonly used methods of both field and laboratory testing to evaluate soil properties for engineering purposes.  Designed to conform to the latest information from the American Society for Testing and Materials, it familiarizes students with the standards that practicing engineers and architects cite in contracts and specifications...read more

Product Description: A short course in geotechnical site investigation is the third volume in the popular and authoritative 'Short course' series. This book focuses on the fundamental principles of geotechnical site investigation - in particular the planning of the investigation...read more

Product Description: This unique manual guides users step-by-step through the hows and whys of the most commonly used testing methods in civil engineering practice?those based on the latest American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). The book uses a consistent ?Procedure,? ?Data,? and ?Calculations? format for each test; contains completely worked examples showing the computations required for the analysis and evaluation of the test data collected; discusses what data, results, and other information should be presented in the test report; and explains what the test results will be used for in practical engineering problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This latest edition, available in print or CD-ROM, contains 22 ASTM guides, practices, and test methods, all of which address important elements of the Phase II environmental site assessment process. The standards cover many of the routine, day-to-day procedures and terminology used in properly evaluating a site to determine the presence or absence of environmental contamination, including the following: • Conceptualizing subsurface and contaminant conditions to adequately focus subsurface investigations • Selecting and using drilling and soil sampling techniques • Classifying and describing soils • Designing and installing groundwater monitoring wells • Sampling and monitoring groundwater, including direct-push equipment • Soil gas monitoring It includes E1903 itself, the Standard Guide for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase II Environmental Site Assessment Process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique lab manual guides readers step-by-step through the hows and whys of the most commonly used testing methods in civil engineering practice—those based on the latest American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) procedures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Explains how to characterize the properties of pavement layers using a number of alternative techniques developed and used for characterizing soil. The five papers consider laboratory testing under triaxial dynamic stress state conditions, measuring in situ the effect of moisture content on subgrad...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The principles and concepts for unsaturated soils are developed as extensions of saturated soils. Addresses problems where soils have a matric suction or where pore-water pressure is negative. Covers theory, measurement and use of the fundamental properties of unsaturated soils--permeability, shear strength and volume change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This innovative soil mechanics text is intended for junior and senior civil engineering majors and contains unique lab experiments incorporating the most up-to-date material and broad range of testing methods. Features include integration of geotechnical topics with laboratory methods, numerous in-text problems and updated laboratory testing methods that meet ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Standards...read more