Geotechnical Engineering

SUBJECT INDEX

921

Abbots’ compaction test 432
Acid test 93
Active earth pressure 451
coefficient of 457
Active zone 407
Active isolation 858
Activity of clays 72
Adhesion 291
Absorbed water 114
Aerial photogrammetry 727
Air content 16
Air lock 766
shaft 766
Angle of obliquity 255
repose 287
shearing resistance 263
Anvil 850
Aperiodic 813
Apparent cohesion 263, 290
Aquifer 126
confined 126
unconfined 126
Area correction 272
ratio 736

Batter pile 687
Bearing capacity 542, 544
factors 551, 553, 561
gross 542
net 542
safe 543
ultimate 542
tables 544
Bentonite 96
Bishop’s method 326, 335
Boring 728
auger 728
wash 728, 729

percussion 728, 730

rotary 728, 730

Boulders 96

Boussinesq’s influence factor

(coefficient) 356

Break in the backfill 494

Caisson disease 767

Caissons (Wells) 613, 759

Caliche 96

California bearing ratio (CBR) 106, 711

Capillarity 137

Capillary rise 141

water 137

Classifical earth pressure theories 456

Clay 93

Coefficient of

compressibility 210

consolidation 228

curvature 59

earth pressure at rest 452, 453

passive earth resistance 452

percolation 121

subgrade reaction 637

transmissibility 126

uniformity 59

volume compressibility 220

Coefficient of elastic

non-uniform compression 833

non uniform shear 833

uniform compression 833

uniform shear 833

Cohesion 2, 254

factor 265

Combined footings 610, 632

rectangular 633

trapezoidal 634