Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fourth Edition

Preface. General principles and practice. Types of pile. Piling equipment and methods. Calculating the resistance of piles to compressive loads. Pile groups under compressive loading. The design of piled foundations to resist uplift and lateral loading. The structural design of piles and pile groups. Piling for marine structures. Miscellaneous piling problems. The durability of piled foundations. Site investigations, piling contracts, pile testing. Appendix. Properties of materials. Indexes.