Disturbed Soil Properties And Geotechnical Design

This book describes the developments leading to the Original Cam Clay model, focusing on fundamentals of the shearing of soil. The aim is to lay the groundwork of understanding that should form the basis of geotechnical design, guiding engineers towards the class of behaviour to be expected under different combinations of effective stress and water content. In this book there are a few equations, but simple ones; much greater challenge rests in the arguments put forward regarding soil behaviour and the intellectual effort needed to keep pace with the author. The book is divided into six chapters, which progress from the simple planar sliding of soil towards plastic design in geotechnical engineering. A modest ambition for the book might be to see the words 'cohesion' and 'adhesion' excised from our soil mechanics vocabulary, replacing them with, respectively, 'shear strength' at a given water content and effective stress level and on the rather rare occasions where it is appropriate, 'cementation'.Schofield, Andrew is the author of 'Disturbed Soil Properties And Geotechnical Design ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780727729828 and ISBN 0727729829.