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10TH EDITION

Ian Smith

This tenth edition first published 2021

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Edition History © 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd © 2006 Ian Smith

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smith, G. N. (Geoffrey Nesbitt), author.

Title: Smith's elements of soil mechanics / Ian Smith.

Other titles: Elements of soil mechanics for civil and mining engineers | Elements of soil mechanics

Description: 10th edition. | Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. | Originally published under the title: Elements of soil mechanics for civil and mining engineers. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021003404 (print) | LCCN 2021003405 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119750390 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119750406 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119750413 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Soil mechanics.

Classification: LCC TA710 .S557 2021 (print) | LCC TA710 (ebook) | DDC 624.1/5136–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003404

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003405

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When the ninth Edition of this book was published in 2014, I was pleased to receive positive feedback for making the understanding of the new geotechnical design code, Eurocode 7, straightforward and easy to follow. At that same time, a review of all Eurocodes commenced with the intention of producing a ‘second generation’ of the codes containing improvements and changes to the design procedures. The second generation of the Eurocodes will be published throughout the 2020s and Eurocode 7, in particular, is set to be significantly different from the first generation of the code.

The changes in the new Eurocode 7 affect many aspects of the existing design procedure, and I describe these and explain how to perform the new geotechnical design process in this tenth edition of the book. Many new worked examples help to illustrate the new procedures. Since the first generation of Eurocode 7 is still very much in use in geotechnical design, I have retained the content on it so that readers of this book can gain a thorough understanding of the design procedures used in both generations of the code.

As with the ninth edition, to help the reader fully understand the stages of a Eurocode 7 design, I have arranged the sequence of chapters in the book appropriately: Chapter 6describes the design methods (aligning mainly to Eurocode 7 Part 1) and Chapter 7describes the ground investigation aspects (aligning to Part 2). The new Part 3of the second generation of the code is then introduced in the appropriate later chapters in the book (e.g. retaining structures, shallow and deep foundations).

In recognition of the growing coverage of geomechanical modelling in university degrees, I have introduced a brand‐new chapter on constitutive modelling in geomechanics ( Chapter 16). The content of this chapter was provided by my friend and colleague Dr Rodaina Aboul Hosn from the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics , Paris. What Rodaina does not know about constitutive modelling is not worth knowing, and I owe her an immense amount of thanks for her excellent work. I have embedded Rodaina's work into my style of writing so that the chapter sits neatly alongside all the other chapters.

In addition to the above new content, I have also updated all sections on laboratory and field testing to align the descriptions of the procedures with the new international standards for these tests ( Chapters 1, 4and 7). Another update introduced in this edition is highway pavement foundation design ( Chapter 15) – brought about as a result of revisions to the UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB). The early chapters of the book continue to cover the fundamentals of the behaviour of soils. To ease understanding of critical state soil mechanics, I have rearranged and expanded this subject and this is now in a new chapter alongside description of stress paths ( Chapter 5).

As with previous editions, I have provided many worked examples throughout the book that illustrate the principles of soil mechanics and the geotechnical design processes. To help the reader further, I have produced a suite of spreadsheets and documents to accompany the book that match up against many of the worked examples. These can be used to better understand the analysis being adopted in the examples. In addition, I have produced the solutions to the exercises at the end of the chapters, a suite of video animations of lab tests and geotechnical processes, and various other teaching resources to accompany the book. All of these files can be freely downloaded from the companion website.