Fundamentals of Soil Behavior

By James K. Mitchell

Book Overview

Explains the factors which determine and control the engineering properties of soils--particularly volume change, deformation, strength and permeability. New to this edition: expanded coverage of residual and tropical soils, environmental aspects of soil behavior, material on partly saturated soils, revised treatment of direct or coupled hydraulic, chemical, thermal and electrical flows through soil.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471856401
• ISBN13: 9780471856405
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 11.3"