| dc.description.abstract | To encourage students of soil mechanics to develop an understanding of fundamental concepts, in contrast to the formula-driven approach used by some other authors. To help students build a framework of basic ideas robust and adaptable enough to support and accommodate the more complex problems and analytical procedures that confront the practising geotechnical engineer. To illustrate, with reference to real case histories, that the sensible application of simple ideas and methods can give perfectly acceptable engineering solutions to many classes of geotechnical problem. To avoid the unnecessary use of mathematics. To cover in a single text, the soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering topics usually included in typical MEng-level university courses in civil engineering and related subjects, without too much in the way of additional clutter. | en_US |
