Polyteknisk Boghandel

This well-established and internationally recognised reference is an essential handbook for engineers. It also provides students with more comprehensive information on the subject than is generally available in a civil engineering degree course.

General principles and practices; 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; Index