Principles of Foundation Engineering

by Braja M. Das

Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 0495668109

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Book Description

Originally published in the fall of 1983, Braja M. Das' Seventh Edition of PRINCIPLES OF FOUNDATION ENGINEERING continues to maintain the careful balance of current research and practical field applications that has made it the leading text in foundation engineering courses. Featuring a wealth of worked-out examples and figures that help students with theory and problem-solving skills, the book introduces civil engineering students to the fundamental concepts and application of foundation analysis design. Throughout, Das emphasizes the judgment needed to properly apply the theories and analysis to the evaluation of soils and foundation design as well as the need for field experience.

About the Author

Dr. Braja Das is Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento. He received his M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in the area of Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of several geotechnical engineering texts and reference books and has authored more than 250 technical papers in the area of geotechnical engineering. His primary areas of research include shallow foundations, earth anchors, and geosynthetics. He is a Fellow and Life Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Life Member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and an Emeritus Member of the Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council (Washington D.C.). Dr. Das has received numerous awards for teaching excellence, including the AMOCO Foundation Award, AT&T Award for Teaching Excellence from the American Society for Engineering Education, the Ralph Teetor Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Customer Reviews

If you have any doubt that Civil Engineering is complex as any other engineering, read this book. Soil Mechanics and Foundations is increibly difficult. The well known and respect author has done a great job with a diffult subject. This book is not for an introductty course. Despite being chalked full of excellent illustrations and worked problems, if you are like me, you willl still struggle with this material. I recommend this book only if you are advanced in geotechnical engineering. Otherwise try Craigs soil mechanics for a introduction to the subject. If you are a practicing engineer, this is probably the book for you.

This was among the better of the required texts I needed in college. It is well organized and the examples are thorough and there are enough of them to answer questions. The author seem to have a solid understanding of the material and wrote questions that were more like questions you'd encounter in industry. Ones where you have to define the parameters (and look something up) and aren't given every single variable.