Mechanics of Soils :   / Jumikis, Alfreds R.;  -- New York : D. van Nostrand, 1964.

xiv, 483 p.

1. Introduction;2. Stress conditions in a soil medium;3. Shear strength of soil;4. Stress distribution in soil;5. Stress condition in a granular medium at critical equilibrium;6. Bearing capacity of soil;7. Experimental determination of the shape of rupture surfaces in soil;8. Earth pressure theory;9. Earth pressure on a curved rupture surface;10. Fundamentals of sheet piling;11. Empirical method for the design of anchored sheet piling;12. Miscellaneous topics;13. Theory of wells;14. Flow net theory;15. Thixotropic breakdown

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