Soils, rocks and concrete are the principal materials a civil engineer encounters in practice. This book deals with the material analogies, their implications in property characterization, giving attention to similar as well as dissimilar methods in respect of each of these three materials. It provides an integrated, systematic approach for realistic assessment of engineering properties of soils, rocks and concrete. Geotechnical engineers, civil engineers and materials scientists will be interested in this volume.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Practical problems	p. 1
Material state and engineering property	p. 9
Stress and strain	p. 11
Strength	p. 13
Deformation	p. 15
Constitutive relationships	p. 16
Yield and failure	p. 17
What are material properties?	p. 21
Rock and soil as engineering materials	p. 23
Geological origin of rock materials	p. 23
Structural geological features of rock mass	p. 27
Formation of soils	p. 30
Transitional earth materials	p. 35
Engineering characteristics	p. 35
Engineering properties	p. 37
Concrete as a construction material	p. 57
Basic differences	p. 57
Requirement	p. 58
Materials for concrete	p. 58
Proportioning of concrete mixes	p. 65
Practical concreting	p. 69
Properties of concrete	p. 73
Soil, rock and concrete material analogies and implications	p. 79
Saturated soil and fresh concrete	p. 79
Intact rock and hardened concrete	p. 88
Rock fill and rock masses	p. 89
Testing of soils, rocks and concrete	p. 92
Exploration	p. 93
Art and science in subsurface exploration	p. 94
Problems and phases in site investigation	p. 95
Types and classification of methods	p. 97
Phases of site investigations	p. 99
Geophysical exploration	p. 102
Soil sounding	p. 125
Standard penetration test	p. 131
Boring and drilling methods	p. 136
Concluding remarks	p. 146
Sampling: requirements and techniques	p. 149
Sampling: classification and requirements	p. 150
Preparatory work	p. 153
Representative disturbed sampling	p. 155
Undisturbed sampling: tools and techniques	p. 160
Sampling techniques in relation to soil, rock and concrete	p. 177
Handling of samples	p. 201
Sample quality and evaluation	p. 204
Compositional analysis	p. 215
Structure of solid phases	p. 216
Basic structural units	p. 218
Mineralogy of the earth's materials	p. 220
General scheme for compositional analysis	p. 223
Particle-size analysis	p. 224
Surface area determination	p. 237
Elemental analysis of soils, rocks and concrete	p. 247
Differential thermal analysis	p. 257
Optical methods	p. 258
Electron microscopy	p. 262
X-ray diffraction	p. 269
Micro- and macro-structural analysis	p. 279
Micro-structure	p. 284
Macro-structure	p. 287
Experimental techniques	p. 287
Specimen preparation for specific techniques	p. 300
Petrofabric analysis	p. 310
Soil fabric analysis	p. 315
Cement pastes, mortars and concrete	p. 337
Macro- and micro-structural characteristics of soils, rocks and concrete	p. 345
Structure dependent property characterization	p. 347
Inferential testing	p. 349
In-situ and placement state parameters	p. 349
Inferential testing of rock material	p. 363
Consistency limits of soils	p. 370
Inferential tests on transitional earth materials	p. 385
Cements, mortars and concrete	p. 388
Inferential parameters and environmental behaviour	p. 405
Micro-mechanistic interpretation for property correlations	p. 415
Engineering property evaluation: laboratory methods	p. 433
Deformability, compressibility and consolidation	p. 434
Strength and deformation	p. 462
Permeability: laboratory measurement methods	p. 526
Engineering property evaluation in-situ methods	p. 541
Field instrumentation	p. 542
In-situ stress determination	p. 559
Compressibility and deformation modulus assessment	p. 567
In-situ strength measurements	p. 590
In-situ evaluation of concrete	p. 613
In-situ permeability tests	p. 633
Epilogue	p. 655
References	p. 657
Acknowledgements to resource material	p. 689
Author Index	p. 691
Subject Index	p. 703
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