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Foundation Design and Practice. an Economic View
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Examines the building of a foundation from the inception of the idea to the finished structure by looking at the engineering problems and questions of safety and suitability.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Figures, Tables
- Introduction
- Part One. The Preliminaries
- 1. A Quick Survey
- 2. Choosing the Site
- 3. Investigating the Chosen Site
- 4. Core Borings
- 5. The Demands of the Superstructure
- 6. Breakdown of Design and Specification Cost Factors
- Part II. Foundation Types
- 7. The Elimination Table
- 8. Spread Footings, Alone and in Combinations
- 9. Wood Piles, Untreated and Treated
- 10. Cast-In-Place Uncased Concrete Piles; MacArthur, Simplex, and Other Types
- 11. Cast-In-Place Uncased Concrete Piles: Western Foundation Corporation Types
- 12. Light-Shelled Cast-In-Place Concrete Piles
- 13. Composite Piles
- 14. Precast Concrete Piles
- 15. Medium-Wall Steel Pipe Piles
- 16. Structural Steel Piles
- 17. Open-End Pipe Piles to Rock
- 18. Caissons
- 19. Drop-Shaft or Free-Air Method of Forming Caissons
- 20. Drilled-In Caissons
- 21. Grouping in General
- 22. Selecting the Bid Group
- Part Three. Laboratory and Field Testing
- 23. Field Testing: Soil-Load Tests
- 24. A Method of Pile-Load Testing
- 25. What a Designing Engineer Should Know About Tools, Plant, and Dynamic Driving Formulas
- 26. Methods of Installation Other Than Driving
- 27. Specifications
- 28. Foundation Design Based on Performance or Functional Criteria
- 29. Load by Test: Purpose and Uses
- 30. Choice of Working Load Per Pile
- Part Four. Specifications and Contracts
- 31. After the Bid Group
- 32. Legal Requirements
- 33. The General Clauses of a Specification
- 34. Contract Forms Other than Specifications
- 35. Writing a Group Specification
- Part Five. Building Codes
- 36. Using The New Building Codes to Reduce Cost
- 37. Explanation and Discussion of Certain Descriptive Terms
- Part Six. Basic Design
- 38. A Five-Force Approach
- 39. Dock Faces, Railway Trestles, Buildings, And Retaining Walls
- 40. Bridge Piers
- 41. Graphic Method Of Selection Of Foundation Types
- 42. Basis Of Load-Carrying Capacity Of Foundations
- Index