Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice, Hardcover, 3 Edition by Terzaghi, Karl (Used)

Hardcover: 3 Edition
Used: Like New
9780471086581
0471086584

Publication Date: 1996-02-07
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Hardcover : 592 pages
Edition: 3 Edition
Author: Terzaghi, Karl
ISBN-10: 0471086584
ISBN-13: 9780471086581

Product Description This book is one of the best-known and most respected books in geotechnical engineering. In its third edition, it presents both theoretical and practical knowledge of soil mechanics in engineering. It features expanded coverage of vibration problems, mechanics of drainage, passive earth pressure, and consolidation. From the Publisher One of the best-known and most respected books on geotechnical engineering, this updated version features expanded coverage of vibration problems, mechanics of drainage, passive earth pressure and consolidation. In the years since publication of the past editions there has been a proliferation of soil mechanics research, much of it irrelevant to engineering practice. It is the aim of the authors to bring order out of this confusion. About the Author Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian civil engineer, geotechnical engineer and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics". Dr. Ralph Brazelton Peck was an eminent civil engineer specializing in soil mechanics. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 "for his development of the science and art of subsurface.