Geotechnical library
Geotechnical library
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I have the classical textbooks on soil mechanics such as T & P SMIEP, Lambe & Whitman Soil Mechanics, Bowles Foundation Analysis and Design (which is great for me) Tschebotarioff which I hardly ever used since University days.
I just expanded with Coduto Foundation Design Principles nad Practices and Tomlinson Foundation design and Construction. Im thinking of getting Das Foundation Engineering.
They both seem like pretty good practical books especially Coduto very simple to read with good practical examples and Im briefly reading thru it with great interest.
Does anyone else have any other suggestions for good references.
Does anyone have Tschebotarioff and do they have any use for it these days?
I just expanded with Coduto Foundation Design Principles nad Practices and Tomlinson Foundation design and Construction. Im thinking of getting Das Foundation Engineering.
They both seem like pretty good practical books especially Coduto very simple to read with good practical examples and Im briefly reading thru it with great interest.
Does anyone else have any other suggestions for good references.
Does anyone have Tschebotarioff and do they have any use for it these days?





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But I thought it was time to expand library in geotech so got a few newer texts like Coduto Foundation Design and also Tomlinson Foundation construction which Ive been meaning to get for quite a while.
I find both texts quite good in different ways and I think the title really says it all.
I had a good read of Mayne and Poulos (1999) paper and I think its very good too.
Of course Terzagi Peck and Mesri is always good to read for any Geotech issues and the 3rd edition suits me well because its in SI units and because at least it doesn't fall to bits like my 2nd edition.
I think books like Poulos and Davis would probably be beyond my type of work, which is mainly commercial foundations and earth works with fairly simple soil conditions, but I will still look out for it.
Bowles was always my favorite and probably still is (maybe because of all the equations and because Im a structural engineer) but its always good to get another viewpoint and I find Coduto really compliments Bowles in many ways.
Thanks for your references.
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Been also trying to get Terzaghi Theoretical soil mechanics but its hard to get and very expensive.
Anyway Im happy now with what I have and will be doing some reading over the next few weeks.
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These are not cheap, but if you want consolidated geotechnical library, get the 4 volume set by Arpad Kezdi (Handbook of Soil Mechanics, circa 1990 +/-).
http://www.soilstructure.com/
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http://www.soilstructure.com/
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The best practical geotechnical treatise in many ways. Practical+equations, with some pretty innovative methods and concepts in 1991 (still innovative now I'd say).
I have many of the others mentioned, Feng stands out though.
The 1990 Kulhawy and Mayne EPRI handbook, now freely downloadable, previously running at US$ 2500, is also a very good practical reference.
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Back in my Uni days it was Lambe and Whitman and Terzaghi and Peck (2nd edition) and we also had C.R. Scott Soil Mechanics and Foundations which in my opinion is quite a poor book. I actually started liking Bowles 2nd edition and never looked back.
In fact I just wanted some new blood in my library on soils and foundations and quite happy for the moment. If I see some bargains in ebay I may buy more classics or maybe some more newer books like some Indian Books e.g. Budhu
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I would think such a reference would include some of the following:
LRFD approach
Deflection of cantilevered and anchored walls
Earth pressures
Finite Element
Limit equilibrium
Tiered walls and slope stability - using limit equilibrium / FEM
Earth pressures using limit equilibrium / FEM
Really just more on soil-structure interaction and modeling
Sorry don't mean to Hijack the thread.
EIT
www.HowToEngineer.com
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Thanks for the input.
Would be nice if some books included some or all of your topics, but the field of Geotechnical engineering has become so broad that it would be a difficult task to include the topics.
I did my University course about 30 years ago and am quite surprised that with fundamental soil mechanics one can solve a wide variety of foundation and Geotechnical problems.
Lambe and Whitman, Terzaghi and Peck (Mesri), Bowles can get a lot of problems solved in the field, in my line of work.
I just thought I would add a few more texts such as Tomlinson, Coduto and Das which I find to be quite good. Doesn't contain much more than 30 year old books but still good IMHO.
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