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Geotechnical Book Reviews

Inputs from our readers on geotechnical engineering books are greatly appreciated.

New Books (Not reviewed by iGEM)

• Manual of Soil Testing, 3rd Ed. by K.H. Head BookSource, 2006
  Published by Whittles Publishing
• Plasticity and Geotechnics by Hai-Sui Yu 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

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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