VANE SHEAR STRENGTH TESTING IN SOILS: FIELD AND LABORATORY STUDIES

By JOSHUA GARCIA

1 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING—A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2 ORIGIN OF SOIL AND GRAIN SIZE 3 WEIGHT–VOLUME RELATIONSHIPS 4 PLASTICITY AND STRUCTURE OF SOIL 5 CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL 6 SOIL COMPACTION 7 PERMEABILITY 8 SEEPAGE 9 IN SITU STRESSES 10 STRESSES IN A SOIL MASS 11 COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOIL 12 SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOIL 13 LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE: AT-REST, RANKINE, AND COULOMB 14 LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE: CURVED FAILURE SURFACE 15 SLOPE STABILITY 16 SOIL-BEARING CAPACITY FOR SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS 17 LANDFILL LINERS AND GEOSYNTHETICS 18 SUBSOIL EXPLORATION ANSWERS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS