Geotechnical Engineering : Unsaturated and Saturated Soils

The first driving force for writing it was the coming of age of unsaturated soil mechanics: There was a need to introduce geotechnical engineering as dealing with true three-phase soils while treating saturated soil as a special case, rather than the other way around. The second driving force was to cover as many geotechnical engineering topics as reasonably possible in an introductory book, to show the vast domain covered by geotechnical engineering and its important contributions to society. Dams, bridges, buildings, pavements, landfills, tunnels, and many other infrastructure elements involve geotechnical engineering. The intended audience is anyone who is starting in the field of geotechnical engineering, including university students.