Soil Mechanics

An elementary university textbook covering stresses in soils, permeability and groundwater flow, consolidation, shear strength, and the classical solutions for earth pressure and bearing capacity. Derivations are worked out in full rather than quoted.

Arnold Verruijt

A design handbook built around charts and tables: soil identification and classification, seepage and drainage, settlement analysis, and the selection of shear strength parameters. Meant to be used at the desk while sizing a design, not read cover to cover.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command

Graduate level notes on one, two and three dimensional consolidation theory, consolidation in layered soils and under time dependent loading, and the strength behavior of soils through Mohr circles and triaxial test interpretation. Assumes you already have the fundamentals.

Debabrata Giri

A short, practical chapter on identifying and classifying soils in the field, with the Unified Soil Classification System explained step by step and photographs of the manual tests engineers fall back on when no laboratory is available.

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Eleven standard laboratory experiments written as procedures you can follow at the bench: moisture content, specific gravity, in situ density, sieve and hydrometer analysis, consistency limits, permeability, compaction and shear strength. Each one lists apparatus, method and the calculation sheet.

Jharkhand Rai University