Soil Improvement and Ground Modification Methods

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Compiled by an author with an increase of than 25 years of field and academic encounter, Soil Improvement and Ground Modification Strategies explains floor improvement technologies for transforming marginal soil into soil which will support all sorts of structures. Soil improvement may be the alteration of any home of a soil to boost its engineering efficiency. This combined with fast urbanization and the commercial growth presents an enormous problem to providing a good framework at a competitive cost. Some kind of soil improvement must happen on every building site.

• Conventional soil improvement methods and state-of-the-art testing strategies
• Options for mitigating or getting rid of the chance of liquefaction in case of main vibrations
• Structural components for stabilization of fresh or existing construction commercial waste/by-products, commercially obtainable soil
• Innovative approaches for drainage, filtration, dewatering, stabilization of waste materials, and contaminant control and removal

An ideal guide for fresh or practicing engineers, this reference addresses projects regarding soil stabilization and soil admixtures, including usage of industrial waste materials and by-products, commercially offered soil admixtures, typical soil improvement methods, and state-of-the-art testing strategies.

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• Geological Engineering
• Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading
• Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis (3rd Edition)