includes references and index

1. Introduction
2. Preliminary considerations
3. Simple soil tests and classification tests
4. Classifications
5. Subsurface investigations
6. Permeability
7. Weights, stresses and heads, seepage forces
8. Capillarity
9. Seepage
10. One dimensional consolidation
11. Use of elastic theory for estimating stresses in soils
12. Settlement analysis
13. Strength theory
14. Shear testing methods, shearing characteristics of sands
15. Shearing strength of cohesive soils
16. Stability of slopes
17. Lateral pressures, stability of retaining walls
18. Soil mechanics considerations relative to dams
19. Action of shallow foundations, bearing capacity
20. Action of piles, pile foundations