Table of Contents

IntroductionAcknowledgementsChapter 1 - Engineering Properties of Soils, Dr. N. Sivakugan Chapter 2 - Lateral Earth Pressure, Dr. Braja M. DasChapter 3 - Designs of Shallow Foundations, Dr. N. Sivakugan & Dr. Marcus PachecoChapter 4 - Foundation-Soil Interaction, Dr. Priti Maheshwari Chapter 5 - Design of Pile Foundations, Dr. Sanjeev KumarChapter 6 - Retaining Walls, Dr. Aniruddha Sengupta Chapter 7 - Slope Stability, Dr. Khaled SobhanChapter 8 - Expansive Clays, Dr. Thomas PetryChapter 9 - Soil Stabilization, Dr. Thomas PetryChapter 10 - Site Investigation & In Situ Tests, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Shukla & Dr. N. Sivakugan Chapter 11 - Vibrations of Foundations, Dr. Braja M. Das & Dr. N. Sivakugan Chapter 12 - Geosynthetics, Dr. Tuncer B. Edil & Dr. Ahmet H. AydilekChapter 13 - Geoenvironmental Engineering, Dr. Nazli Yesiller & Dr. Charles D. Shackelford Chapter 14 - Railway Trackbed Foundation Design, Dr. Gurmel S. Ghataora & Dr. Michael BurrowChapter 15 - Special Foundations, Dr. R. L. Handy & Dr. David J. White Index

About the Author

Dr. Braja M. Das was Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento from 1994 to 2006. Prior to 1994, he was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois. The author of more than 250 technical papers, his primary areas of research are shallow foundations, earth anchors, and geosynthetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.