Fundamentals of Fibre-Reinforced Soil Engineering, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Developments in Geotechnical Engineering Series

Chapter 1: Basic Description of Soil and Soil Reinforcement.- Chapter 2: Basic Description of Fibre-Reinforced Soil.- Chapter 3: Engineering Behaviour of Fibre-Reinforced Soil.- Chapter 4: Soil Reinforcing Mechanisms and Models.- Chapter 5: Applications of Fibre-Reinforced soils.

Dr Sanjay Kumar Shukla is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering (Springer International Publishing). He is an Associate Professor and Program Leader of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Civil and Chemical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India , and a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. He graduated in 1988 with a first-class degree with distinction in Civil Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University, Ranchi), India, and earned his MTech in Civil Engineering (Engineering Geology) in 1992 and PhD in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering) in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He has over twenty years of teaching, research and consultancy experience in the field of civil (Geotechnical) engineering. He is the author of ICE textbooks titled ‘Core Principles of Soil Mechanics’ and ‘Core Concepts of Geotechnical Engineering' and has authored/co-authored/edited other 7 books and 12 book chapters. He is also the author/co-author of more than 150 research papers and technical articles, including over 100 refereed journal publications. He is a fellow of Engineers Australia, Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Geotechnical Society, and a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Geosynthetics Society and Indian Roads Congress. He serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement, Geotechnical Research, Indian Geotechnical Journal, Cogent Engineering and Advances in Civil Engineering, and he is the Scientific Editor of Journal of Mountain Science.

Includes basic description of soil and soil reinforcement

Provides the details of fibres and fibre-reinforced soil

Covers the engineering behaviour of fibre-reinforced soil with key research developments

Presents the reinforcing mechanisms and models

Describes key application areas, and presents the field experience with application guidelines

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras