Dear Colleague,
Jean-Louis BRIAUD
As you may know, I have very recently published a book entitled “Geotechnical Engineering: Unsaturated and Saturated Soils” and I would like to give you a special code (BRI13) which you can use to get 30% off the list price of $165 in case you wish to purchase a copy. The offer expires on 31Dec2013. For more information about the book or to purchase print or e-books go to: www.wiley.com/buy/9780470948569 If you are a professor or instructor and are interested in contacting your local Wiley sales representative to discuss adopting the book and get an evaluation copy, go to: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470948566.html. I also have some dedication cards that I can sign and send to you if you wish to stick the card on to your copy. The book is 1000 pages long with 1300 illustrations and 400 problems with solutions next to the problems at the end of each chapter. I attach the 27 chapter table of contents which will give you a sense of what you can find in the book. It includes the classical topics like lab tests, foundations, retaining walls and slope stability but also geosynthetics, geoenvironmental, soil improvement, 
earthquake engineering, site investigations, in situ testing, engineering geology, geophysics, erosion, problem solving methods (FDM, FEM, DEM, probability and risk), and even technical communications. I wrote this book over the last three years not only for undergraduate courses but also for most courses offered in geotechnical engineering so that the students would not have to buy several books to cover the topic. I also wrote it for the practitioner as a very helpful reference. In addition to covering the breadth of geotechnical engineering, I wanted to attempt to start with unsaturated soil mechanics and treat saturated soils as a special case rather than the other way around.
Jean-Louis BRIAUD If you find something you like about the book, please tell others and if you find mistakes, please tell me so that I can address them in subsequent printing of this edition and continue to improve.
Best wishes, Jean-Louis Briaud
LIST OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
3. SOIL COMPONENTS
4. CLASSIFICATION TESTS AND CLASSIFICATIONS
5. ROCKS AND INTERMEDIATE GEOMATERIALS
6. SITE INVESTIGATION, DRILLING, AND SAMPLING.
7. IN SITU TEST
8. ELEMENTS OF GEOPHYSICS
9. LABORATORY TESTS
10. EFFECTIVE STRESS, WATER STRESS, AIR STRESS AND STRAINS
11. PROBLEM SOLVING METHODS
12. SOIL CONSTITUTIVE MODELS
13. FLOW OF FLUID AND GAS THROUGH SOILS
14. DEFORMATION
15. SHEAR STRENGTH
16. THERMODYNAMICS FOR SOIL PROBLEMS
17. SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS
18. DEEP FOUNDATIONS
19. SLOPE STABILITY
20. COMPACTION
21. RETAINING WALLS
22. SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE GEO-ENGINEERING
23. EROSION OF SOILS AND SCOUR PROBLEMS
24. GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
25. GEOSYNTHETICS
26. GROUND IMPROVEMENTS
