A thoroughly updated, expanded and revised new edition of one of the most distinguished publications in geotechnical engineering.

Greater emphasis on practical problems involving advanced soil behavior. 

 New chapter on time effects on soil deformation at different strengths and strain levels. 

 New sections on emerging topics in soil behavior, including Environmental Geotechnics, biological influences on soil behavior, soil fracturing, partially saturated soils, the effects of time, and Geochemical problems.

New sections and expanded coverage of micro-mechanical behavior at the particulate level and its influences on engineering properties at the macro-scale, soil deformation at different strain levels.

 More useful tables and graphs providing correlations among composition, classification, state, and static and dynamic properties.

Each chapter has been reviewed and revised, some have been combined to produce a better organization and flow of material.

With this edition, a supplemental set of questions and problems has been added to each chapter.