Abstract:
This book is intended primarily to serve the needs of the undergraduate civil engineering
student and aims at the clear explanation, in adequate depth, of the fundamental
principles of soil mechanics
Description:
The destructive process in the formation of soil from rock may be either physical or
chemical. The physical process may be erosion by the action of wind, water or glaciers,
or disintegration caused by alternate freezing and thawing in cracks in the rock
