This well-established textbook presents, in as concise a form as possible, the applications of soil mechanics that are now being used in civil engineering and includes in the text, a liberal number of worked examples. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised to cover the changes occuring in the subject since the publication of the previous edition in 1977, and the test has been extended to include a straightforward introduction to critical state theory, a topic which has become increasingly important in soil mechanics.This well-established textbook presents, in as concise a form as possible, the applications of soil mechanics that are now being used in civil engineering and includes in the text, a liberal number of worked examples. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised to cover the changes occuring in the subject since the publication of the previous edition in 1977, and the text has been extended to include a straightforward introduction to critical state theory, a topic which has become increasingly important in soil mechanics.
- ISBN10 0003834301
- ISBN13 9780003834307
- Publish Date 23 March 1987 (first published November 1968)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 October 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Edition 5th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English