iGEM Feature: Geotechnical Books

 

Geotechnical Book Reviews

Input from our readers on geotechnical engineering books is greatly appreciated.

New Books (Not reviewed by iGEM)

• Geotechnics and Earthquake Geotechnics Towards Global Sustainability by Susumu Iai (Editor), March 2011
  Published by Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
• Offshore Geotechnical Engineering by
  Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., May 2011
• Soil Mechanics Fundamentals by Isao Ishibashi, Old Dominion University, VA, USA and Hemanta Hazarika, Kyushu University, Japan
  Published by CRC Press, Dec. 2010
• Soil and Rock Description in Engineering Practice David Norbury, Reading, UK
  Published by Whittles, 2010
• A Particle of Clay: the biography of Alec Skempton by his daughter, Judith Niechcial
  Published by Whittles, 2008
• Cores and Core Logging for Geoscientists, 2nd edition by Graham Blackbourn, Whittles, 2008
  Published by Whittles Publishing
• Manual of Soil Testing, 3rd Ed. by K.H. Head BookSource, 2006
  Published by Published by Whittles Publishing
• Plasticity and Geotechnics by Hai-Sui Yu
  Published by Springer, 2006

Book Reviews by iGEM)

• Geotechnics for Building Professionals by J. A. Charles BRE, 2005
• Theories of Consolidation by by Robert L. Schiffman Univerity of Colorado Press, 2000
• Karl Terzaghi - Engineer as Artist by R. E. Goodman ASCE, 1999
• GeoMeasurements by Pulsing Cables and Probes by O'Connor, K.M. and Dowding, C.H. (1999) ASCE, 1999
• Foundation Analysis and Design, 5th Ed. by Joseph Bowles McGraw-Hill 1996
• Construction Vibrations by Charles H Dowding Prentice-Hall 1996
• Geofoam Geosysnthetic by John S. Horvath Available direct from Dr. Horvath or the IFAI Bookstore (see the links on the page), 1995.
• Cone Penetration Testing in Geotechnical Practice by Tom Lunne, Norway, Peter Robertson, Canada, and John Powell, UK

• Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice, 3rd Ed. by Terzaghi & Peck, and Mesri Wiley 1996
• Earthquake Damage: Inspection, Evaluation and Repair by Gennaro G. Marino L J Publishing Co., 1997

Other resources

• Geotechnical Engineering - Principles and Practices by Donald Coduto 1998, Prentice-Hall 1997
• Computational Geomechanics - with Special Reference to Earthquake Engineering by O. C. Zienkiewicz, INME, Swansea, UK, A.H.C. Chan, University of Birmingham, UK, M. Pastor, CEDEX, Madrid, Spain, B.A. Schrefler, University of Padua, Italy and T. Shiomi, Takenaka Corporation, Japan, John Wiley & Sons, 1999
• Experimental Soil Mechanics by Jean-Pierre Bardet Prentice-Hall 1997

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