Geotechnical Engineering

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926 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

honey-comb 8
single-grained 120
Superficial velocity 120
Swedish method of silices 326, 328
Swelling 31, 204

Taylor’s method 326, 341
Tension crack 327
Test pits 727, 728
Texture 5, 9, 31
Thin-walled sampler 736
Thixotropy 74
Time-compression curve 208
Time-factor 230
Tolerance limits 830
Top flow line 179
Torsion test 267
Total stress parameters 265
Transient vibration 813
Transmissibility 859
Trial wedge method 477
Triaxial compression test 270
True shear parameters 265
Tup 851
Tuning 864
Two is to one method 378

Unbalanced inertial forces 847
Unconfined compression strength
test 73, 267, 277
Unconsolidated undrained test 266
Underconsolidated soil 216
Underreamed piles 662
Uniform surcharge 462, 495
Unit weight 16

bulk (mass) 16

dry 18

in-situ 42

saturated 17

submerged (buoyant) 17

Unit weight of solids 16

of water 16

Useful width concept 627

Vane shear test 267, 279

Velocity potential 176

Vertical capillarity test 147

Vibration 813

Vibration isolation 859

Vibration pick-up 838, 840

Vibrators 434, 436

Virgin compression curve 212

Viscous damping 819

Viscous friction 291

Void ratio 15

Volumetric shrinkage 71

Wall friction 478

angle of 478

Water (moisture) content 16, 31, 35

Wave equation method 664

Well foundations 776

Well-graded soil 58

Well cap 778

Wenner configuration 750

Westergaard’s influence coefficient 362

Winkler’s hypothesis 686, 687

Working chamber 765

Zero-air voids line 426