Engineering Treatment of Soils

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ISBN: 9780419177500 | 0419177507
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/25/1993

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This book reviews the techniques which are used to improve the engineering behaviour of soils, either in situ or when they are used as a construction material. It is a straightforward, well illustrated and readable account of the techniques and includes numerous up-to-date references.

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Introduction
Site investigation Soil classification Soil types
Exclusion techniques . Sheet piles
Contiguous bored piles and secant piles
Slurry trenches
Diaphragm walls
The character of bentonite slurry
Compressed air Ground freezing
Introduction
Methods of ground freezing
Hydrogeology and the nature of frozen soils
Strength and behaviour of frozen ground
Drainage techniques Filter drains
Drainage of slopes
Sand drains, sandwicks and band drains
Lime columns
Groundwater lowering
Sumps
Wellpoint systems
Ejector or educator systems
Bored wells
Settlement and groundwater abstraction
Electro-osmosis and electrochemical stabilization
Compaction and consolidation techniques
Mechanical compaction of soil
Precompression
Compaction piles
Vibrocompaction
Dynamic compaction
Explosive compaction
Soil reinforcement and soil anchors
Reinforced earth
In-situ reinforcement techniques
Soil anchors
Geosynthetic materials
Types of geosynthetic materials
Properties of geosynthetic materials
Functions of geosynthetics
Uses of geosynthetics materials
Grouts and grouting . Introduction
Properties of grouts
Penetration of grouts
Types of grout
Grouting
Soil stabilization
Cement stabilization
Lime stabilization
Other materials used for soil stabilization
Thermal stabiliziation
Appendix
References
Further reading
Index
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