Download or read book Geotechnics of Soft Soils: Focus on Ground Improvement written by Minna Karstunen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural soft soils are very complex materials. As construction activities increasingly take place in poor ground conditions, ground improvement is often required. However, design practices for ground improvement were for long at best crude and conservative, and at worst unsafe. Although new construction and field observation techniques have been de