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foundation design book
i am looking for a practical reference book which presents foundation options for building adjacent to existing foundations. interested in design considerations for underpinning, soil nailing, helical piers, micro-piles, etc. also interested in a good reference for deep foundation design. any suggestions?
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bowles - foundation design
a great reference book with many practical examples.
i am more of fan of m.j. tomlinson's works - he has one on foundation design and construction and another on pile design and construction.
thanks for the replies qshake and bigh. one concern however - i would prefer design examples in standard us units. i have read a review that says the later editions of the bowles book has all units in si. does anyone know which edition made this transition. also, do the examples in the tomlinson books use metric units?
almost all new texts are in si units - you'd have to go to some older ones (tschebotarioff, krynine and judd, terzaghi and peck (1967), etc). i know the feeling of si and english - having moved to canada in 1975 just after they started to change over. i found if i started in english, i had to stay in it - if i was in si, i had to stay in it too. now i'm much more comfortable - so long as they don't use tonne/m3!!! but, you should really learn the si system - it isn't that hard.
20psf = 1kpa (approx)
1 ton = 10 kn
1 tsf = 100kpa
62 psf = 10 kn/m3
rrmiv,
regardless of units the theory is still the same. tomlinson - foundation design and construction is an excellent reference, lots of examples and very well considered solutions to common problems.
regards
sc
a.b. chance has an excellent literature on their helical anchors and using them for underpinning. their data can be found at this link:
a. b. chance has information on each of the mentioned topics - underpinning, soil nailing, and micro-piles. however, do not rely on chance information only. if the ground is hard or has any obstructions to screwing-in helices, the chance systems may not be vaible and other method or systems may be required.
bowles, winterkorn & fang, rotay, and fhwa have excellent publications on these topics.
you could also try this book;
structural foundation design by curtins although it is in metric units but a very well presented text book for the practising engineer.
sorry, i misspelled the name of robert t. ratay. his book is handbook of temporary structures in construction.
jum/peinc - could you give full details on references - publisher, year, etc.
we seem to get a lot of such questions on references, etc. and i was thinking that we should sort of get together over the coming months and put together an exhaustive list of such references along with short comments - then we can put them all in a faq for future reference. anyone else game??? let me known if so -

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