Practical Foundation Engineering Handbook

The Handbook gives you not only important how-to's, but equally vital how-not-to's that prevent costly damage to structures and professional reputations. Handy illustrations, charts, tables, and case-study examples ease your work. You also get full coverage of failure analysis and repairs--for dealing with the errors made by those who didn't use this book. With Practical Foundation Engineering Handbook and its math-minimizing strategies, you're ready to tackle any structural foundation project with confidence, efficiency, and the most comprehensive, up-to-date methods available anywhere.
Foundation, geotechnical, and soil engineering as well as repair experts provide the answers you want on--

• Appraisals
• Bearing Capacity
• Concrete Mix Properties
• Construction Issues
• Design Analysis
• Design Finalization
• Design Parameters
• Design Techniques (Piers, Piles, Slab on ground, Post Tension Slabs, Pier and Beams)
• Drilling (Piers)
• Earth Pressures
• Forensic Investigations
• Foundation Engineering
• Foundation Repair Requirements (Lightly loaded as well as high rise)
• Geotechnical Issues
• Grouting (Deep and Shallow Techniques)
• High-Rise/Heavy Construction
• Insurance Programs
• Legal Concerns
• Mud-jacking
• Non-Grouting Techniques
• Piers and Piles
• Preventive Maintenance
• Reinforced Concrete
• Repair
• Residential and Light Commercial Construction
• Retaining Systems
• Settlement
• Shimming Pier Caps
• Site Development
• Soil Improvement
• Soil Mechanics
• Soil Stabilization
• Stress Distribution
• Substandard Soils
• Underpinning
• Upheaval (Slab foundations)
• Water in Soils

New in this edition:

• Grouting substandard soils
  
• Forensics investigations
  
• Residential and light construction repair procedures and options; expanded material
  
• Nongrouting methods to improve substandard soils; expanded material
  
• Soil mechanics and foundation engineering, expanded
  
• Special coverage for lightly loaded foundations-pier and beam, as well as conventional and post-tension slabs
  
• Selecting the proper foundation repair method
  
• Advice on litigation and role of expert witnesses

Contents

• Introduction
  
• PART 1 - Foundation and Civil Engineering Site Development: Water Behavior in Soils; Site Preparation
  
• PART 2 - Soil Mechanics and Foundation Design: Soil Mechanics; Shallow Foundations
  
• PART 3 - Fundamentals of Concrete: Concrete; Fundamentals of Reinforced Concrete
  
• PART 4 - Foundation Design: Pile Foundations; Design Parameters and Procedures for Lightly Loaded Foundations
  
• Part 5 - Earth Pressures and Retaining Systems
  
• PART 6 - Soil Improvement and Stabilization: Nongrouting Techniques; Grouting to Improve Foundation Soil
  
• PART 7 - Foundation Failure and Repair: Residential and Light Construction; Causes of Foundation Failure; Foundation Repair
  
• PART 8 - Foundation Failure and Repair: High-Rise and Heavy Construction
  
• PART 9 - Misc. Concerns