ABOUT THE BOOK

Soil is one of the most important materials in Civil Engineering construction and being a foundation material it also supports all the different types of loads of superstructure that safely gets transferred to the foundation soil through substructure called foundation systems. Like other materials, soil also deforms and fails under externally applied load, especially in shear. The book explains the basic understanding of soil as material and its engineering properties, settlement behavior and failure hypothesis using Mohr-Coulomb criterion. Following are some of the highlights of the book:

• Written in a very simple English language that can be easily understood by a student who is exposed to for the first time to the subject matter “Soil Mechanics”
• Concepts are explained through photographs, line diagrams, pictures so that a student can easily visualize the underlying concept and grasp easily
• Practice problems are given at the end of each chapter to make sure students learn the principles of soil mechanics by solving the numerical.
• All statement in the book is given with reference to authenticate and also to build confidence level in the reader's mind that nothing is hypothetically written or assumed while writing the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Amit Srivastava did his under graduation from University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), and M.E. & Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, IISc Bangalore. He has 20+ years of teaching, research, industry and administrative experience. His area of research interest is Geotechnical Engineering, which is a branch of civil engineering. He has bagged 3 IGS national awards (Prof. C.S. Desai Biennial Award – 2014; IGS-AFCONS Biennial Award – 2010; IGS-Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award – 2008) and one international award from ASCE (EWRI Best Paper Award – 2015). In the year 2019, he was presented research appreciation award from the university management.

Prof. G L Sivakumar Babu is currently serving as a full Professor at the Geotechnical Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He earned his B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University (Tirupati), M Eng degree in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Anna University (Madras), and PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore). He has served as a Scientist, Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, Scientific Officer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Engineer, International Airports Authority of India. He was a Humboldt Fellow & Visiting Scientist, Germany and a Visiting Scholar, Purdue University, Lafayette, USA.