Strength of Dilating Soil and Load-Holding Capacity of Deep Foundations

Introduces the theory and practical application of dilating soil and the load-holding capacity of deep foundations. Topics covered include dilatancy as a fundamental property of granular media, direct shear in conditions of constrained dilatancy, and load-holding capacity of a single pile.

Dmitry Yu. Sobolevsky was bom on 8 August 1959 in Minsk, Belarus. In 1198 U graduated from the Byelorussian State Polytechnical Academy (BSPA), Faculty of Civil Engineering. His Ph. D. thesis, which he defended in 1985, treated ground anchors an& in 1993 he delivered his D.Sc. thesis on dilatancy problems in soil mechanics at St. Petersburg Technical University. D. Yu. Sobolevsky worked as a lecturer in the field of geotechnics and researcher in soil mechanics of BSPA. He is known in Belarus and other cou^^s of the former USSR as a consultant and specializes in deep foundations, underground constructions, grouting and anchoring. In 1994 he became the Head of the Department for Geotechnics .and? Environmental Engineering of BSPA, the main geotechnical organization of Belarus.