Latest changes: 10/18/07

The following errata apply to the 2nd edition. Some of these errata would have been
corrected in the 2nd and subsequent printing of the book.
In some books, many Greek characters are missing due to misprinting by the printers.
The publisher has corrected this problem. They will be posting the corrections at
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The author apologies for these problems, although they are beyond his control.
Page 10

Line 6: This line should read

are anticlines - rock mass folded upward (convex) - and synclines rock mass
folded downward (concave).

Page 47

Table in step 1: Move the add box to align with 3.0

Page 56

Replace Fig. 2.15b by 3.11b in the flow chart of Figure 3.11a

Page 57

Replace Fig. 2.15a by 3.11a in the flow chart of Figure 3.11b

Page 83

Table 4.1 line 3 after table heading replace Find sands by Fine sands

Page 99

Line 14: Replace 1 = by L =

Line 15: Replace i =

h
1

by

i=

h
L

Page 102

Line 1 replace the last value of 1.5 x 10-5 by 15 x 10-5

Page 112

Replace Mpa by MPa in Table 5.2 heading

Page 120

Section 5.8.2: line 3: Change stain to strain

Page 141

On Fig. 5.26 remove one of the Iz on the ordinate

Page 203

Remove / after Cv in line 3

Page 224

Line 3: Type II soils dense sand and heavily overconsolidated clays (OCR2)

should read Type II soils dense sand and heavily overconsolidated clays (OCR
>2)

z
Ho

Page 252

Equation (7.39) should read 1 =

Page 259

In table 1 =

Page 265

u d

Eq. (7.51) should read A = A f =

1 3 f

Page 275

See the corrected solution for Example 7.13 at the end of this document.

Pages

On page 354 change

z
V
; p =
Ho
Vo

354,357,359, 1 + 2 tan(35o )(1 sin 35o )2 tan 1 ( 1 ) to 1 + 2 tan(35o )(1 sin 35o )2 tan 1 ( 1 )
2 180

384

180

Similarly for pages 357, 359 and 384

Page 358

Change q a =

Page 361

Under Step 1, replace s = 1 +

s = 1 0.4

q ult
q
+ Df to q a = u + Df
FS
FS
B
tan p = 1 + 1tan 35o = 1.7
L

by

B
= 0.6
L p

Under Step 3, replace

q u = Df (N q 1)sq d q + 0.5BN s d = 0 + 0.5 10 10 7 1.7 1 = 595 kPa by

q u = Df (N q 1)s q d q + 0.5BN s d = 0 + 0.5 10 10 7 0.6 1 = 210 kPa
Under Step 4, replace short-term by long-term and
FS =
Page 410

210
595
1
3 by FS =
200
200

Line 1: Change Section 10.4 to Section 10.5

Page 413

Table 10.4: Row 7: Insert ; after

Table 10.5: Row 3: Replace kpa with kPa
Row 7: Replace 1.2 0.25 by 1.2 0.25

Page 416

Table 10.6 Replace Oneil by ONeill and Table 10.3 by 10.5

Page 430

Line 24: Replace 136 by 1.26

Page 433

Replace Qa in the insert equation in Fig. 10.14 by Qaf

Page 434

Replace Eq. (10.47) to the end of the section with

0.91qs I Bg
mm [Units: qs in kPa, Bg in m]
SPT: es =
N cor
CPT: es =

41qs IBg

where I = 1 0.08

qc

mm [Units: qs in kPa, qc in kPa, Bg in m]

10.47

10.48

L
0.5 ,Bg and Lg are the width and cross-sectional length of the
Bg

pile group (Fig. 9.15), L is the embedded length of the pile, Ncor is the average N
value corrected for overburden pressure over

2L
Qa
is the average
, qs =
3
Bg L g

vertical stress of the pile group and qc is the arithmetic average of the cone
resistance over two pile diameters below the cone tip.
Page 439

Equation (10.49): Change Lq to Lg

Page 455

Problem 10.1, Fog. P10.1: Change 675 kN to 375 kN

Page 484

In Figure 11.12 label: Replace is by in and insert a before riprap

Page 500

Replace cos ( = ) by cos ( + ) in the denominator of equation 12.16

Page 502

Replace equations 12.21 and 12.22 with

 sin
a = sin 1
+ 2
sin

12.21

sin
p = sin 1
+ 2
sin

12.22

The slope of the slip plane for the active and passive cases respected is
a =

1 1 sin
+ + sin

4 2 2 2
sin

p =

1 1 sin
+ + sin

4 2 2 2
sin

Replace a in Figure 12.10 by a

Page 507

Replace rotaion with rotation in line 10

Page 563

Problem 12.22: Replace b = 35o with p = 35o ; b = 20o

Page 615

Chapter 4 6) replace 0.051 by 0.39 and 3.2 by 2.8

Chapter 4 8) replace 45.5 by 41.1 and 0.455 by 0.36

Solution 7.13

Step 1: Determine the initial stresses.

z = 1 = sat z 1 + ( sat w ) z 2 = (18 1) + (18 - 9.8)4 = 50.8 kPa

Kooc = Konc (OCR)0.5 = (1 - sincs) (OCR)0.5 =

3 = Kooc z = 1.2 50.8 = 61 kPa
1 = z + z2w = 50.8 + 4 9.8 = 90 kPa
3 = 3 + z2w = 61 + 4 9.8 = 100.2 kPa

(1 sin 24 ) (4)
0

0.5

= 1.2

Step 2: Determine the stress increases at z = 5m under the center of the rectangular foundation. Use
equation (5.85) or the computer program on the CD.
z = 71.1 kPa, x = 5.1 kPa

Neglect the effect of shear stresses (zx)

Step 3: Determine imposed shear stress for short-term loading.
Current vertical total stress = (1)T = 1 + z = 90 + 71.1 = 161.1 kPa
Current horizontal total stress = (3)T = 3 + x = 100.2 + 5.1 = 105.3 kPa
Current shear stress = u =

( 1 )T ( 3 )T 161.1 105.3
=
= 28 kPa
2
2

< 40kPa

The soil will not reach the failure state.

Factor of safety is: FS =

su

40
= 1.4
28

Step 4: Determine failure shear stress for long term loading.

For long term loading, we will assume that the excess porewater pressure dissipated, so the effective stress
= total stress.
Final effective stresses :

( 1) F = 1 + z = 50.8 + 71.1 = 121.9 kPa

( 3 ) F = 3 + x = 61 + 5.1 = 66.1 kPa

The friction angle mobilized is:

1 3
121.9 66.1
= sin 1
= 17 0

121.9 + 66.1
1 + 3

= sin 1

The critical state friction angle is 24o, which is greater than . Therefore, failure would not occur.

Factor of safety:

tan 24o
FS =
= 1.5
tan17o

The factor of safety based on peak condition is

tan 27o
FS =
= 1.7
tan17o