Engineering Treatment of Soils

Introduction. Site investigation. Soil classification. Soil types. Exclusion techniques. Sheet piles. Contiguous bored piles and secant piles. Slurry trenches. Diaphragm walls. The character of bentonite slurry. Compressed air. Ground freezing. Introduction. Methods of ground freezing. Hydrogeology and the nature of frozen soils. Strength and behaviour of frozen ground. Drainage techniques. Filter drains. Drainage of slopes. Sand drains, sandwicks and band drains. Lime columns. Groundwater lowering. Sumps. Wellpoint systems. Ejector or educator systems. Bored wells. Settlement and groundwater abstraction. Electro-osmosis and electrochemical stabilization. Compaction and consolidation techniques. Mechanical compaction of soil. Precompression. Compaction piles. Vibrocompaction. Dynamic compaction. Explosive compaction. Soil reinforcement and soil anchors. Reinforced earth. In-situ reinforcement techniques. Soil anchors. Geosynthetic materials. Types of geosynthetic materials. Properties of geosynthetic materials. Functions of geosynthetics. Uses of geosynthetics materials. Grouts and grouting. Introduction. Properties of grouts. Penetration of grouts. Types of grout. Grouting. Soil stabilization. Cement stabilization. Lime stabilization. Other materials used for soil stabilization. Thermal stabiliziation. Appendix. References. Further reading. Index.