Soil Testing For Engineers

The present edition is enlarged further by addition of field CBR test, determination of modulus of subgrade reaction and field permeability tests. The extended bibliography has also been provided in this edition. Whereever necessary, grammatical corrections have also been done. The chapter of case studies has been provided with more informations to make it more lucid, informative and users' friendly. In some copies of last editions, flow chart of soil classication could not be added. The flow chart has thus been made mandatory as part of Chapter 1. In the present revised and enlarged edition, preliminary, rock investigations have also been discussed.

1. Definitions and Soil Classification

2. Moisture Content Determination

3. Specific Gravity Determination

4. Grain Size Analysis

5. Atterberg Limits and Indices

6. Compaction Test (Water Content-dry Density Relation)

7. Permeability Test

8. Consolidation Test

9. Unconfined Compression Test

10. Direct Shear Test

11. Triaxial Compression Test

12. Differential Free Swell

13. Standard Penetration Test

14. Dynamic Cone Test

15. Field Density and Void Ratio

16. Plate Load Test

17. Vane Shear Test (Field and Laboratory)

18. Piezometers

19. Magnetic Settlement Gauge

20. Determination of California Bearing Ratio (Laboratory & Field Method)

21. Determination of pH Value of Soils

22. Determination of Total Soluble Sulphates

23. Determination of Total Soluble Solids (by Gravimetric Method)

24. Determination of Organic Matter

25. Case Studies

26. Static Cone Penetration Test

27. Soil Investigation in Boulder-Gravel Deposit

28. Modulus of Subgrade-Reaction

29. Determination of Insitu Permeability

30. Preliminary Introductory of Rock Investigations