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Features

• NEW - Expanded overview of the geology of soils and rocks.

  • Gives students a new chapter that fully explains these topics.

• NEW - Improved classification aids for the Unified system.

  • Allows students to use this text for reference in the future.

• NEW - More comprehensive—Includes a more complete description of borrow and fill calculations, a new discussion of OSHA's requirements for trench safety and configuration, and a rewritten description of pile driving and driven pile design and testing.

  • Provides students with new and more comprehensive material, making the text useful for years to come.

• NEW - New examples—Breaks out new and existing examples from the text.

  • Allows students and instructors to more readily follow methods of problem solving.

• Logical organization.

  • Enables students to have a clearer and simpler presentation of the material.

• Inclusion of laboratory test procedures—Contained in Appendix A.

  • Gives students the opportunity to discuss these procedures without a supplemental lab manual.

• Practical application focus—Emphasizes the engineering principles to the use of soils in construction.

  • Gives students a text that does not focus on design principles, but rather on the contractor's side of soils and foundations.

• Boxed examples.

  • Highlights for students practical applications of the text material.

New To This Edition

• Expanded overview of the geology of soils and rocks.

  • Gives students a new chapter that fully explains these topics.

• Improved classification aids for the Unified system.

  • Allows students to use this text for reference in the future.

• More comprehensive—Includes a more complete description of borrow and fill calculations, a new discussion of OSHA's requirements for trench safety and configuration, and a rewritten description of pile driving and driven pile design and testing.

  • Provides students with new and more comprehensive material, making the text useful for years to come.

• New examples—Breaks out new and existing examples from the text.

  • Allows students and instructors to more readily follow methods of problem solving.

Table of Contents

I. SOIL MATERIALS.

II. EARTHWORK IN THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT.

Courses

Soils and Foundations  (Construction Management & Civil Technology)
Soil Mechanics  [C&T]   (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

Reviews

"The best feature of this textbook is its focus on construction applications. This textbook does a good job of balancing the engineering principles with the construction processes in the study of soils." — Greg Ohrn, Northern Arizona University

"The strength of the text is that it presents technical material in a very understandable way to students who are more oriented towards non-technical, more managerial subjects." — Constantine A. Ciesieiski, East Carolina University

Backcover Copy

A revision of the classic in the field, Soils in Construction is intended for students and professionals who are more interested in the construction management and field applications of soil technology than in the engineering theory side. The text uses simple math and applications to explore the nature of soils and how the soil materials may affect certain construction operations. An appendix of laboratory testing exercises provides hands-on practice with basic principles and procedures.

Some of the key features include:

• Expanded overview of the geology of soils and rocks.
• Improved classification aids for the Unified system.
• More complete description of borrow and fill calculations.
• Description of OSHA's requirements for trench safety and configuration.
• New description of pile driving and driven pile design and testing.
• Breakout of all of the examples so students can more readily follow the methods of problem solving.
• Addition of SI units to some of the calculations.

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©2004  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 50 pp  |  Instock
ISBN-10: 0130489182  |  ISBN-13: 9780130489180
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