ERRATA: Experimental Soil Mechanics

By Jean-Pierre Bardet
Wednesday, March 1, 1999
Page 50, 2 lines from bottom. Replace finer than 2 with finer than 5.
Page 51, Figure 13. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet EXAMPLE1 in Excel File HYDRO.XLS.
Page 52, Figure 14. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet EXAMPLE1 in Excel File HYDRO.XLS.
Page 62, Figure 12. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet EXAMPLE1 in Excel File PIPETTE.XLS
Page 63, Figure 14. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet EXAMPLE2 in Excel File PIPETTE.XLS.
Page 69, Figure 4. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet BUOYANCY in Excel File BUOYAN.XLS.
Page 82, Question 10. Just after container weigh 60 g. insert The container weight is 20g.
Page 91, Review Question 8. Change Is there is a typical to Is there a typical.
Page 118, Figure 1. Use new graphic in File CLASSI.CVS.
Page 121, Figure 4. Use new Visual Basic function USC in File SOILAB.XLA.
Page 122, Figure 5. Use new figure in Worksheet EXAMPLE in File CLASSI.XLS.
Page 133, Table 1. TODO
Page 150, Table 1, 2d column. Change (kN) to (N).
Page 155, Line 10. Change 24.4 kN to 24.4 N.
Page 155, Line 12. Change 44.5 kN to 44.5 N.
Page 160, Line 17. Change 44.5 kN instead of 24.4 kN to 44.5 N instead of 24.4 N
Page 160, Lines 18-19. Change by applying 56 blows per layer (instead of 25) to by applying 25 blows
per layer.
Page 173, Figure 12. Use new figure in Worksheet EXAMPLE in File CONE.XLS.
Page 198, Figure 17. Truncated letter in Cells D7 and C17. Please increase height of Row 7 and width of
Column C.
Page 205, Figure 3. Problem with Temperature in Cell C14. Widen column C.
Page 213, Equation 10. Problem in second edition of book, absent in first edition.
Page 213, Figure 10. Problem in second edition of book, absent in first edition.
Page 225, Figure 13. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet ________ in File _______.
Page 227, Line 3. Change Inverse to Invert.
Page 229, Figure 20. Please reduce size so that the font size becomes identical to that in Figure 21.
Page 231, Figure 23. Use new spreadsheet in worksheet EXAMPLE3 in Excel File FINITE.XLS
Page 232, Figure 26. TODO.
Page 232, Figure 27, TODO.
Page 241-242. Check equations and signs
Page 250. ?
Page 271, Figure 8. Please use new figure in File _______.
Page 280, Equation 8. Please change z to z (remove subscript prime.)
Page 327, Figure 32. Two incorrect characters. On horizontal axis t90. Below Segment AB,
AC=1.15XAB
Page 355, Figure 24. Truncated label of vertical axis. Should read C (%).
Page 367, Figure 8. Please use new Figure 8 in Worksheet Fig.8 in Excel file Strength.xls. (Change kPa to
MPa).
Page 371. Truncated sentence. The complete sentence is:
Recent experimental results (e.g., Biarez and Hicher ,1994; and Ishihara, 1993) implies more clearly the
existence of this critical state line in sands.
Page 374, caption of Figure 18. Change (a) dense and (b) loose to (a) loose and (b) dense.
Page 377, Line 1. Please move "uum" to page 375 (vacuum).
Page 377, Figure 24. Use new Figure 24 in Worksheet Fig.24 in File strength.xls.
Page 384, Figure 35. Use new Figure 35 in Worksheet "Isotropic" in Excel File Weald.xls.
Page 387, Figure 39. TODO.
Page 388, Under Equation 35. Replace plasticity index with liquidity index.
Page 389. TODO
Page 439, Figure 15. Use new Figure in Worksheet "Example 1" in Excel File Direct.xls.
Page 440, Figure 16. Use new Figure in Worksheet _____ in File ______.

Page 458, Eq.8, Replace P/A with P/(2A).

Page 461, Figure 14. Use new Table in Worksheet "Example 1" in Excel File Triaxial.xls.
Page 463, Figure 17. Use new Table in Worksheet "Example 2" in Excel File Triaxial.xls
Page 468, Figure 3. Truncated Figure 3 (missing lines 1-11). Use new Table in Worksheet "Example 3" in
Excel File Triaxial.xls
Page 479, Figure 8. Use new Figure in Worksheet _____ in File ______.
Page 486. Line 8. Please replace the following text and equations:
NormalandLognormaldistributions
The normal distribution is:

f (x, , )

1
e
2

x
2

(10)

The Lognormal distribution is obtained by replacing x by Ln(x) in Eq.10.

withthefollowingnewtextandequations:
NormalandLognormaldistributions
The normal distribution is:

f ( x, , )

1
x
e
2
1
2

(10)

The Lognormal distribution is obtained as follows:

f ( x, L , L )

1
ln( x )
e
2 x L
1
2

L2

where L is the mean value of the Natural logarithm of x (i.e., ln(x)) and L is the standard deviation of
ln(x).
Page 504. TODO
Page 505, Table 1. Remove horizontal and vertical headings.
Page 506. Remove conclusion on soil classification.
Page 506, Line 6. Replace 1996 with 1997.
Page 506, Use new Figure in Worksheet _____ in File ______.

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