Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics The revised 10th edition of the core textbook on soil mechanics The revised and updated edition of Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics continues to offer a core undergraduate textbook on soil mechanics. The author, a noted expert in geotechnical engineering, reviews all aspects of soil mechanics and provides a detailed explanation of how to use both the current and the next versions of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes accessible explanations, helpful illustrations, and worked examples and covers a wide range of topics including slope stability, retaining walls and shallow and deep foundations. The text is updated throughout to include additional material and more worked examples that clearly illustrate the processes for performing testing and design to the new European standards. In addition, the book’s accessible format provides the information needed to understand how to use the first and second generations of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. The second generation of this key design code has seen a major revision and the author explains the new methodology well, and has provided many worked examples to illustrate the design procedures. The new edition also contains a new chapter on constitutive modeling in geomechanics and updated information on the strength of soils, highway design and laboratory and field testing. This important text: Includes updated content throughout with a new chapter on constitutive modeling Provides explanation on geotechnical design to the new version of Eurocode 7 Presents enhanced information on laboratory and field testing and the new approach to pavement foundation design Provides learning outcomes, real-life examples, and self-learning exercises within each chapter Offers a companion website with downloadable video tutorials, animations, spreadsheets and additional teaching materials Written for students of civil engineering and geotechnical engineering, Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics, 10th Edition covers the fundamental changes in the ethos of geotechnical design advocated in the Eurocode 7.

Table of Contents:
Part I Fundamentals of soil mechanics 1 Classification and Physical Properties of Soils Learning outcomes Agricultural and engineering soil Origin of soil Clay soils Field identification of soils Laboratory classification of soils Activity of a clay Soil classification and description Soil properties Exercises 2 Permeability and Flow of Water in Soils Learning outcomes Subsurface water Flow of water through soils Darcy’s law of saturated flow Coefficient of permeability, k Determination of permeability in the laboratory Determination of permeability in the field Approximation of coefficient of permeability General differential equation of flow Potential and stream functions Flow nets Critical flow conditions Design of soil filters Capillarity and unsaturated soils Earth dams Seepage through non-uniform soil deposits Exercises 3 Total and Effective Stress Learning outcomes State of stress in a soil mass Total stress Pore Pressure Effective stress Stresses induced by applied loads Exercises 4 Shear Strength of Soils Learning outcomes Elastic stresses and strains Friction Complex stress The Mohr circle diagram Cohesion Coulomb’s law of soil shear strength Modified Coulomb’s law The Mohr–Coulomb yield theory Determination of the shear strength parameters Determination of the shear strength parameters from triaxial testing The pore pressure coefficients A and B The triaxial extension test Behaviour of soils under shear Operative strengths of soils The critical state Sensitivity of clays Residual strength of soil Exercises Part II Geotechnical codes and standards and site investigation 5  stress paths and critical state  Stress paths in two-dimensional space  Stress paths in three-dimensional space Isotropic consolidation Stress paths in the triaxial apparatus Exercises 6 Eurocode 7 Introduction to the Structural Eurocodes Introduction to Eurocode 7 Using Eurocode 7: basis of geotechnical design Geotechnical design by calculation Ultimate limit states The EQU limit state The GEO limit state and Design Approaches Serviceability limit states Geotechnical design report 7 Site Investigation EN 1997-2:2007 – Ground investigation and testing Planning of ground investigations Site exploration methods Soil and rock sampling Groundwater measurements Field tests in soil and rock Geotechnical reports Part III Advanced soil mechanics and applications 8 Lateral Earth Pressure Learning outcomes Earth pressure at rest Active and passive earth pressure Rankine’s theory: granular soils, active earth pressure Rankine’s theory: granular soils, passive earth pressure Rankine’s theory: cohesive soils Coulomb’s wedge theory: active earth pressure Coulomb’s wedge theory: passive earth pressure Surcharges Choice of method for determination of active pressure Backfill material Influence of wall yield on design Design parameters for different soil types Exercises 9 Retaining Structures Learning outcomes Main types of earth retaining structures Gravity walls Embedded walls Failure modes of earth retaining structures Design of gravity retaining walls Design of sheet pile walls Braced excavations Reinforced soil Soil nailing Exercises 10 Bearing Capacity and Shallow Foundations Learning outcomes Bearing capacity terms Types of foundation Ultimate bearing capacity of a foundation Determination of the safe bearing capacity The effect of groundwater on bearing capacity Developments in bearing capacity equations Designing spread foundations to Eurocode 7 Non-homogeneous soil conditions Estimates of bearing capacity from in situ testing Exercises 11 Pile Foundations Learning outcomes Introduction Classification of piles Method of installation Pile load testing Determination of the bearing capacity of a pile Designing pile foundations to Eurocode 7 Pile groups Exercises 12 Foundation Settlement and soil compression Learning outcomes Settlement of a foundation Immediate settlement Consolidation settlement Application of consolidation test results General consolidation Eurocode 7 serviceability limit state Isotropic consolidation Two-dimensional stress paths Exercises 13 Rate of Foundation Settlement Learning outcomes Analogy of consolidation settlement Distribution of the initial excess pore pressure, ui Terzaghi’s theory of consolidation Average degree of consolidation Drainage path length Determination of the coefficient of consolidation, cv, from the consolidation test Determination of the permeability coefficient from the consolidation test Determination of the consolidation coefficient from the triaxial test The model law of consolidation Consolidation during construction Consolidation by drainage in two and three dimensions Numerical determination of consolidation rates Construction pore pressures in an earth dam Numerical solutions for two- and three-dimensional consolidation Sand drains Exercises 14 Stability of Slopes Learning outcomes Planar failures Rotational failures Slope stability design charts Wedge failure Slope stability analysis to Eurocode 7 Exercises 15 Compaction and Soil Mechanics Aspects of Highway Design Learning outcomes Field compaction of soils Laboratory compaction of soils Specification of the field compacted density Field measurement tests Highway design Exercises 16 An introduction to geomechanical modelling Learning outcomes Constitutive models and their use in geotechnical engineering Micro and macro models Elastic models: linear, on-linear, isotropic and anisotropic Applications and limitations of elastic models Introduction to plasticity theory Elasto-plastic models Applications of elasto-plastic models Examples References Index