"Pile Foundations are an essential basis for many structures. It is vital that they be designed with the utmost reliability, because the cost of failure is potentially huge. Covering a whole range of design issues relating to pile design, this book presents economical and effici…
"Preface to the sixth edition Two factors are driving the development of modern pile design and construction-the growth in demand for high-rise buildings and the subsequent requirement for ever larger piles, frequently in areas with poor subsoils. New piling techniques and power…
"Piling in weak rocks presents particular problems to the foundation designer and piling specialist, not least because of the difficulty of investigating and testing these intermediate geomaterials. There is a lack of understanding of their behaviour, especially of their deforma…
