Development of the fundamental principles of soil mechanics as utilized in soil and foundation engineering. Topics include: classification, index properties, strength and stress-strain behavior, ...

Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of shored and unshored slopes and walls of excavations, introduction of various types of shoring (wood timbers and ...

Here John Burland, a Commission member and professor of soil mechanics at London's Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, tells how perilously close the tower has come to toppling ...