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Soils, rock and concrete are the principal materials a civil engineer encounters in practice. This book deals with the material analogies, their implications in property characterization, giving attention to similar as well as dissimilar methods in respect of each of these three materials. It provides an integrated, systematic approach for realistic assessment of engineering properties of soils, rocks and concrete. Geotechnical engineers, civial engineers and materials scientists should be interested in this volume.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction: prelude; practical problems; material state and engineering property; stress and strain; strength; deformation; constitutive relationships; yield and failure; what are material properties? Part 2 Rock and soil as engineering materials: geological origin of rock materials; structural geological features of rock mass; formation of soils; transitional earth materials; engineering characteristics; engineering properties. Part 3 Concrete as a construction material: basic differences; requirement; materials for concrete; proportioning of concrete mixes; practical concreting; properties of concrete. Part 4 Soil, rock and concrete material analogies and implications: saturated soil and fresh concrete; intact rock and hardened concrete; rock fill and rock masses; testing of soils, rocks and concrete. Part 5 Exploration: art and science in subsurface exploration; problems and phases in site investigation; types and classification of methods; phases of site investigations; geophysical exploration; soil sounding; standard penetration test; boring and drilling methods; concluding remarks. Part 6 Sampling - requirements and techniques: sampling - classification and requirements; preparatory work; representative disturbed sampling; undisturbed sampling - tools and techniques; sampling techniques in relation to soil, rock and concrete; handling of samples; sample quality and evaluation. Part 7 Compositional analysis: structure of solid phases; basic structural units; mineralogy of the earth's materials; general scheme for compsitional analysis; particle-size analysis; surface area determination; elemental analysis of soils, rocks and concrete; differential thermal analysis; optical methods; electron microscopy; X-ray diffraction. Part 8 Micro- and macro-structural analysis: micro-structure; macro-structure; experimental techniques; speciment preparation for specific techniques; petrofabric analysis; soil fabric analysis; cement pastes, mortars and concrete; macro- and micro-structural characteristics of soils, rocks and concrete; structural dependent property characterization. Part 9 Inferential testing: in-situ and placement state parameters; inferential testing of rock material; consistency limits of soils; inferential tests on transitional earth materials; cements, mortars and concrete; inferential paramters and environmental behaviour; micro-mechanistic interpretation for property correlations. Part 10 Engineering property evaluation - laboratory methods: deformability, compressibility and consolidation; strength and deformation; permeability - laboratory measurement methods. Part 12 Engineering property evaluation - in-situ methods: field instrumentation; in-situ stress determination; compressibility and deformation modules assessment; in-situ strength measurements; in-situ evaluation opf concrete; in-situ permeability tests.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780444889119
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
  • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier Science Ltd
  • Height: 230 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 0444889116
  • Publisher Date: /01/1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English


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