Principles of Soil Dynamics (PWS-Kent Series in Engineering) [Hardcover]

Braja M. Das (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0534931294 | ISBN-13: 978-0534931292 | Publication Date: June 19, 1992 | Edition: 1

Covers fundamentals of soil dynamics, dynamic soil properties, foundation vibration, soil liquefaction, pile foundation and slope stability.

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About the Author

Dr. Braja M. Das has been the Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science from August 1994 to the present at California State University, Sacramento. Prior to 1994, he was the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois. The author of more than 200 technical papers, his primary areas of research are shallow foundations, earth anchors, and geosynthetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Thomson-Engineering; 1 edition (June 19, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534931294
• ISBN-13: 978-0534931292
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,837,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Only Decent Text Book for Soil Dynamics, May 29, 2001

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Dr. krishna Neaupane (Asst. Prof.) (SIIT, Thammasat Univ., Thailand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Principles of Soil Dynamics (PWS-Kent Series in Engineering) (Hardcover)

I have been using this book as a text for soil dynamics elective course. This book provides sound mathematical backing with relevant practical examples in each section. Students have found this book very useful as they can find examples followed by each derivation. Without hesitation, I would say that this is the only decent book available in the market for the first course in soil dynamics. I would, however, suggest the author to separate "geophysical soil exploration" section from the chapter that describes "Properties of dynamically loaded soil" to avoid confusion.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Full of Errata and Typos, December 13, 2010

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James A. Olsen (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles of Soil Dynamics (Hardcover)

I purchased this book and have read about 30 percent of it in detail and found that it was put together in a sloppy manner. I am very upset at the publisher and Das for putting out such sloppy work and charging $160. Parts of the book are pretty good, but without carefully going through derivations or checking sources, I am hesitant to take anything in the book at face value. The book is supposedly copyrighted in 2011, but many of the topics in the book have not been updated since the first version of Das' book was published in the early 80's. BTW, I hear that the earlier version is better than the 2011 version. There are dozens if not hundreds of errata, grammar errors, and typos in this book, I haven't wasted my time to find all of them , but here are some examples that I have observed while reading the book:


Page 35, eqn 2.91, the equation should use the term cZ' not cZ"

Page 303, for the modified Mercalli scale the word "laster" is used instead of "plaster"

Page 78, compression waves are referred to as "comparison waves"

Page 169, table 4.4 "comparison waves"

Page 172, the octahedral stress is defined as 1/2 (sigma1+sigma2+sigma3)instead of 1/3 (sigma1+sigma2+sigma3)

Page 77, equation 3.65 should have the term d2w/dxdz, not d2w/dxdy

Page 116, Figure 4.17, strain is reported as 10^4 instead of 10^-4

Page 305, table 7.3 is outdated, check USGS, isn't the copyright date 2011?

Page 68, the dx2 and dt2 are switched in the bottom portion of the differential operator in eqn 3.42

Page 115, wrong tense of the verb "use"

Page 30, subscript 2 should be superscript 2 indicating "squared" for eqn's 2.75 a and b

Copyright page, "ourt" instead of "our"

pages 56 and 57, use of the word "nation" instead of "notation"

.....many more, but I think you get the point.

5.0 out of 5 stars Principles of soil Dynamics, September 21, 2011

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Ramesh - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Principles of Soil Dynamics (Hardcover)

The book has dealt with most of the practical problems and quite useful for every Engineer who so ever dealing with machine foundations design and Geotechnical problems