Principles of Geotechnical Engineering
By Braja M. Das
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Provide a valuable overview of soil properties and mechanics together with coverage of today's field practices and basic engineering procedures with Das' PRINCIPLES OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING, 10th Edition. This market-leading introduction to geotechnical engineering is ideal for the introductory course taken by most civil engineering students. This edition provides the background students need for advanced design-oriented courses as well as professional practice. Updates address seepage, vertical stress in soil mass, lateral earth pressure and earthquake forces, elastic settlement, shear strength of soil, unit weights of soil and plasticity. The practical, application-oriented approach integrates comprehensive discussions, detailed explanations and updated or new practice problems. Almost 200 new or updated example problems help ensure understanding. This edition also offers more figures and worked-out problems than any other book for this course. WebAssign digital resources further assist students in mastering this material.
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Provide a valuable overview of soil properties and mechanics together with coverage of today's field practices and basic engineering procedures with Das' PRINCIPLES OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING, 10th Edition. This market-leading introduction to geotechnical engineering is ideal for the introductory course taken by most civil engineering students. This edition provides the background students need for advanced design-oriented courses as well as professional practice. Updates address seepage, vertical stress in soil mass, lateral earth pressure and earthquake forces, elastic settlement, shear strength of soil, unit weights of soil and plasticity. The practical, application-oriented approach integrates comprehensive discussions, detailed explanations and updated or new practice problems. Almost 200 new or updated example problems help ensure understanding. This edition also offers more figures and worked-out problems than any other book for this course. WebAssign digital resources further assist students in mastering this material.
THIS EDITION OFFERS MORE FIGURES AND WORKED-OUT PROBLEMS THAN ANY OTHER SIMILAR TEXT. This edition now offers almost 200 example problems to ensure understanding as well as 275 end-of-chapter practice problems that are updated to reflect the latest developments. This market-leading solution is well known for offering more actual examples and practice than any other of its kind to keep an application-oriented focus on the knowledge your students are acquiring.
CHAPTER INTRODUCTIONS AND CLEAR SUMMARIES CLARIFY CONCEPTS. These helpful learning features clearly preview and reinforce content to guide students in their study and assist them in retaining key concepts.
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Chapter 1. Geotechnical Engineering—A Historical PerspectivePreview this chapter
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