Soil Mechanics and Foundations

By Muni Budhu

Book Overview

This text/CD package combines the fundamentals of geotechnical engineering with an interactive multimedia CD to enhance learning and retention. Readers will learn to understand the physical and mechanical properties of soils; determine parameters from soil testing to characterize soil properties, soil strength, and soil deformations; and to apply the principles of Soil Mechanics to analyze and design simple geotechnical systems. Critical state soil mechanics is included. The CD contains multimedia interactive animations of the essential concepts of soil mechanics and foundations, interactive visualization of mathematical models (e.g. consolidation, critical state models, etc.), virtual laboratories (students can conduct soil tests, interpret the results and apply the results to practical situations using 3-D simulated apparatus; these labs are independent of time and location, the students conduct all the procedures as if he/she were in a real laboratory, and can explore "what-if" situations), digital videos, a glossary, notation, quizzes, notepads, interactive problem solving, spreadsheet links and computer program utilities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047125231X
• ISBN13: 9780471252313
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Great overall Soil Mechanics book, very down to earth for the most part

This book was what my professor selected but I have to say so far, that it's quite good. It stays down to earth and gives practical explanations and not too much theory.

very sucessful book

This book is a very sucessful presentation of soil mechanics and foundation engineering. It builds up the concepts step bystep. There are many good features of this books, as partly covered by reviewers below. The inclusion of critical state soil mechanics is a A+ for this book. In the light of thistutorial model, the stress-strain-strength behaviors of cohesive and cohesionless soils under drained or undrainedcondition are no longer a mystery to the learners. With thisbook, you can feel what soils feel in the field....

Very Sucessful Book

This book is a very sucessful presentation of soil mechanics and foundation engineering. It builds up the concepts step by step. There are many good features of this books, as partly covered by reviewers below. The inclusion of critical state soil mechanics is a A+ for this book. In the light of this tutorial model, the stress-strain-strength behaviors of cohesive and cohesionless soils under drained or undrained condition are no longer a mystery to the learners. With this book, you can feel what soils feel in the field....

Under-graduate Soil Mechanics

This soil mechanics book is one of the best put-together books I have come across. The CD included with the book makes it well worth the high cost. The video clips along with the animated demonstration media clips are extremely helpful in grasping the idea at hand. The follow-along labs. are very helpful. Design of flow nets is covered exceptionally well. Certainly one of my favorite textbooks.

Soil Mechanics and Foundations

This is an outstanding new textbook covering the field of soil mechanics and foundation engineering, which has for so long been populated with very mediocre titles. It is the first book to do a proper job of integrating the more recent advances in soil mechanics (most notably soil plasticity and critical state constitutive models) into a proper description of soil strength. The included software is also outstanding in its application to the teaching of soil mechanics.I have found it to be very useful in my own teaching, and also in my own practice as a geotechnical engineer. Compared with so many of the other books that still fail to cover shear strength and stress-strain relationships properly, this one is nothing short of a breath of fresh air. It is not cheap (what worthwhile book is ?) but in my case the cost is secondary in importance to the material it contains.Recommended highly for both practitioners and academics in civil engineering.