"Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction --
Engineering geology --
Soil components and weight-volume parameters --
Soil classification --
Rocks --
Site investigation, drilling, and sampling --
In sito tests --
Elements of geophysics --
Laboratory tests --
Stresses, effective stress, water stress, air stress, and strains --
Problem-solving methods --
Soil constitutive models --
Flow of fluid and gas through soils --
Deformation properties --
Shear strength properties --
Thermodynamics for soil problems --
Shallow Foundations --
Deep foundations --
Slope stability --
Compaction --
Retaining walls --
Earthquake geoengineering --
Erosion of soils and scour problems --
Geoenvironmental engineering --
Geosynthetics --
Soil improvement --
Technical communications.

Written by a leader on the subject, Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering is first introductory geotechnical engineering textbook to cover both saturated and unsaturated soil mechanics. Destined to become the next leading text in the field, this book presents a new approach to teaching the subject, based on fundamentals of unsaturated soils, and extending the description of applications of soil mechanics to a wide variety of topics. This groundbreaking work features a number of topics typically left out of undergraduate geotechnical courses.