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DEFINITIONS
NOTATION AND UNITS
PART | . INTRODUCTION
Characteristics of machines .
Modes of vibration .
‘The five-per-cent rule . oe
Effects of vibration | ss ee
Permissible amplitudes
‘Types of foundations...
Factors affecting the choice of foundations
Ground conditions
Mass-ratio method of design
Design procedure 7
‘Amplitudes at resonance»
PART Il. RAFT FOUNDATIONS
Elastic properties of the soil.
Elastic modulus changing with depth
Soil parameters
Effect of distribution of pressure below the base
Soil participation.
Calculation of natural frequencies -
Damping constants
Allowable bearing pressure
Inacouracies indesign =.
PART Ill. PILE FOUNDATIONS
Load tests
Calculation of frequencies
Design charts
Design scher
End-bearing piles:
Calculation of natural icequoncis
Friction piles : :
Soll participation 5
Inaccuracies in design 2
Low-tuned foundations 5 0.
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xxii“CONCRETE SERIES’ BOOKS ON CONCRETE
Alist of other “Concrete Serie’ books on the design and.
construction of reinforced and prestressed concrte structures,
precast concrete, comont manufacture and testing, structural
analysis, foundations, ote, is given on the page facing page 96,
Fist Published 1969
Pintod in Groat Britain by
Butler and Tanner Ltd, Frome and London