Mike Jeffries, Golder Associates (UK), Canada; Ken Been, Golder Associates, Houston, USA
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Second edition
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxi, 690 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, charts ;
Dimensions
27 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Applied geotechnics series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-676) and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Soil Liquefaction has become widely cited. It is built on the principle that liquefaction can, and must, be understood from mechanics. This second edition is developed from this premise in three respects: with the inclusion of silts and sandy silts commonly encountered as mine tailings, by an extensive treatment of cyclic mobility and the cyclic simple shear test, and through coverage from the "element" scale seen in laboratory testing to the evaluation of "boundary value problems" of civil and mining engineering. As a mechanics-based approach is necessarily numerical, detailed derivations are provided for downloadable open-code software (in both Excel/VBA and C++) including code verifications and validations. The "how-to-use" aspects have been expanded as a result of many conversations with other engineers, and these now cover the derivation of soil properties from laboratory testing through to assessing the in situ state by processing the results of cone penetration testing." --