土木工程专业英语教程 教学课件 ppt 作者 姜晨光 主编第2章 岩土工程学.pptVIP

2 Geotechnical Engineering（岩土工程学） 2.1 Introduction Civil engineers are in the midst of a construction revolution. Heavy structures are being located in areas formerly considered unsuitable from the standpoint of the supporting power of the underlying soils. Earth structures are contemplated that are of unprecedented height and size; soil systems must be offered to contain contaminants for time scales for which past experience is either inadequate or absent. Designs must be offered to defy the ravages of floods and earthquakes that so frequently visit major population centers. All structures eventually transmit their loads into the ground. In some cases this may be accomplished only after circuitous transfers involving many component parts of a building; in other cases, such as highway pavements, contact is generally direct. Load transfer may be between soil and soil or, as in retaining walls, from soil through masonry to soil. Of fundamental importance is the response that can be expected due to the imposed loadings. It is within this framework that geotechnical engineering is defined as that phase of civil engineering that deals with the state of rest or motion of soil bodies under the action of force systems. Soil bodies, in their general form, are composed of complex conglomerations of discrete particles, in compact arrays of varying shapes and orientations. These may range in magnitude from the microscopic elements of clay to the macroscopic boulders of a rock fill. At first glance, the task of establishing a predictive capability for a material so complicated appears to be overwhelming. Although man’s use of soil as a construction material extends back to the beginning of time, only within very recent years has the subject met with semiempirical treatment. In large measure, this change began in 1925 when Dr. Karl Terzaghi published his book Erdbaumechanik. Terzaghi demonstrated that soils, unlike other engineering materials, possess a mechanical behavior high