The book is about soft soil engineering and is intended to serve the practicing as
well as the research engineers. The planning, design and construction of excavations
and foundations in soft to very soft soils is always a difficult and challanging
assignment to engineers. The authors have tried to address some of these problems
and challenges in this book.
Beside the state of the art of soft soils, authors own research results and experiences
from practical projects are presented in the book. Special emphasis is also
given among others on the presentation of several case studies coresponding to
each topic treated in the book as well as a summary of the experiences in the determination
of soil parameters for finite element analysis of geotechnical problems.
The book is illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams. The reader
is refered to chapter 1 for a general introduction to the content of the book, the
motives and backgrounds of the book.