ICE manual of geotechnical engineering / Руководство по геотехническому проектированию ICE

The fi rst three parts of the section address the development of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering as a distinct discipline over the past 80 years or so. Chapter 2 Foundations and other geotechnical elements in context - their role explains the importance of foundations and structures built in or of the ground within civil engineering and construction, and the need for a formal and holistic geotechnical engineering design process. Chapter 3 A brief history of the development of geotechnical engineering gives a history of the development of geotechnical engineering at the borderline between science and art, with the latter defi ned by Terzaghi in 1957 as a ‘mental processes leading to satisfactory results without the assistance of step-for-step logical reasoning’. This is refl ected in the ‘geotechnical triangle’, described in Chapter 4 The geotechnical triangle, which emphasises the essential elements of successful geotechnical engineering as understanding the ground, material properties and relevant precedence (well-winnowed experience), connected by an appropriate model for analysis. <...>