Download Foundation Engineering By Ralph B.Peck, Walter E.Hanson, Thomas H. Thornburn – Foundation Engineering written by Ralph B Peck, Walter E Hanson, Thomas H Thornburn is published by JW and Sons. This text covers properties of subsurface materials, types of foundations and methods of construction, selection of foundation type and basis for design, and design of foundations and earth-retaining structures.

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Book Contents

1. IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL AND ROCKS
2. HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SOIL AND ROCK
3. CONSOLIDATIONS CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL
4. STRESS DEFORMATION STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL AND ROCK
5. TECHNIQUES OF SUBSURFACE INVESTIGATION
6. CHARACTER OF NATURAL DEPOSITS
7. PROGRAM OF SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION
8. EXCAVATING AND BRACING
9. DRAINAGE AND STABILIZATION
10. FOOTING AND RAFT FOUNDATION
11. FOUNDATIONS ON COMPACTED FILL
12. PILE FOUNDATIONS
13. PIER FOUNDATIONS
14. PIER SHAFTS, RETAINING WALLS AND ABUTMENTS
15. SHORING AND UNDERPINNING
16. DAMAGE DUE TO CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS
17. FACTORS DETERMINING TYPE OF FOUNDATIONS
18. FOUNDATIONS ON CLAY AND PLASTIC SILT
19. FOUNDATIONS ON SAND AND NON PLASTIC SILT
20. FOUNDATION ON COLLAPSING AND SWELLING SOILS
21. FOUNDATIONS ON NON UNIFORM SOILS
22. FOUNDATIONS ON ROCK
23. INDIVIDUAL COLUMN AND WALL FOOTINGS
24. FOOTINGS SUBJECTED TO MOMENT
25. COMBINED FOOTING AND RAFTS
26. RETAINING WALLS AND ABUTMENTS
27. FLEXIBLE EARTH-RETAINING STRUCTURES

About Author

Ralph B. Peck, Professor Emeritus of Foundation Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign died Monday, February 18, 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He was born in Winnipeg on June 23, 1912, son of Orwin K and Ethel Huyck Peck, when his father had taken a job as a bridge engineer with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad in Canada.  Ralph Peck earned a Civil Engineering Degree in 1934 and Doctor of Civil Engineering Degree in 1937, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.  He married Marjorie E. Truby on June 14, 1937.  He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Nancy Peck (Allen) Young, and son and daughter-in-law, James (Laurie) Peck, and grandchildren, Michael Young and Maia Peck.

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