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ABOUT THE BOOK

              Foundation Engineering written by Ralph B Peck, Walter E Hanson, Thomas H Thornburn is published by John Wiley and Sons.

                This text covers properties of subsurface materials, types of foundations and methods of construction, selection of foundation type and basis for design, and design of foundations and earth-retaining structures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

          Ralph B. Peck, Professor Emeritus of Foundation Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign died Monday, February 18, 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He was born in Winnipeg on June 23, 1912, son of Orwin K and Ethel Huyck Peck, when his father had taken a job as a bridge engineer with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad in Canada.  Ralph Peck earned a Civil Engineering Degree in 1934 and Doctor of Civil Engineering Degree in 1937, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.  He married Marjorie E. Truby on June 14, 1937.  He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Nancy Peck (Allen) Young, and son and daughter-in-law, James (Laurie) Peck, and grandchildren, Michael Young and Maia Peck.

CONTENTS

1.         IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL AND ROCKS

2.         HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SOIL AND ROCK

3.         CONSOLIDATIONS CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL

4.         STRESS DEFORMATION STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL AND ROCK

5.         TECHNIQUES OF SUBSURFACE INVESTIGATION

6.         CHARACTER OF NATURAL DEPOSITS

7.         PROGRAM OF SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION

8.         EXCAVATING AND BRACING

9.         DRAINAGE AND STABILIZATION

10.       FOOTING AND RAFT FOUNDATION

11.       FOUNDATIONS ON COMPACTED FILL

12.       PILE FOUNDATIONS

13.       PIER FOUNDATIONS

14.       PIER SHAFTS, RETAINING WALLS AND ABUTMENTS

15.       SHORING AND UNDERPINNING

16.       DAMAGE DUE TO CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS

17.       FACTORS DETERMINING TYPE OF FOUNDATIONS

18.       FOUNDATIONS ON CLAY AND PLASTIC SILT

19.       FOUNDATIONS ON SAND AND NON PLASTIC SILT

20.       FOUNDATION ON COLLAPSING AND SWELLING SOILS

21.       FOUNDATIONS ON NON UNIFORM SOILS

22.       FOUNDATIONS ON ROCK

23.       INDIVIDUAL COLUMN AND WALL FOOTINGS

24.       FOOTINGS SUBJECTED TO MOMENT

25.       COMBINED FOOTING AND RAFTS

26.       RETAINING WALLS AND ABUTMENTS

27.       FLEXIBLE EARTH-RETAINING STRUCTURES

* Above mentioned topics are main topics of this book and there are many sub-topics under those. Please refer the Previewbelow for detailed contents *

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