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    <title>introduction to geotechnical engineering</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Holtz, Robert D.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Kovacs, William D., uthor.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Prentice Hall</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1981</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1981</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>733 pages : illustrations.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. Introduction to geotechnical engineering -- 2. Index and classification properties of soils -- 3. Soil classification -- 4. Clay minerals and soil structure -- 5. Compaction -- 6. Water in soils, I: Capillarity, shrinkage, swelling, frost action -- 7. Water in soils, II: permeability, seepage, effective stress -- 8. Consolidation and consolidation settlements -- 9. Time rate of consolidation -- 10. Mohr cicle, failure theories, and stress paths -- 11. Shear stregth of sands and clays.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Robert D. Holtz, William D. Kovacs.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: pages 701-717.</note>
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    <topic>Mecánica de suelos</topic>
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  <subject authority="localuch">
    <topic>Mecánica de rocas</topic>
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    <topic>Rock mechanics</topic>
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    <topic>Geotechnical engineering</topic>
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      <title>Prentice-Hall civil engineering and engineering mechanics series</title>
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