The bookcomprehensively collates, revises and updates “Pile and Pile FoundationHandbook” (1st Edition). According to the new aggregation of pileand pile foundation in such aspects as engineering practice, theoreticalresearch and reform and innovation in recent years, the book makes extension,forms a new concept of chapter arrangement and establishes a new frameworksystem for compilation. The book expands from 46 chapters in 8 parts (1stEdition) to 58 chapters in 10 parts and structures a new expressive systemreflecting comprehensively the historical evolution, applications, engineeringpractice and theoretical research of pile and pile foundation and developmentstatus of technological innovation. It is by now, a most completeencyclopedia of pile and pile foundation.
Thebook is completed cooperatively and jointly by more than senior masters andyoung and middle-aged experts and scholars of the mainland, Taiwan and HongKong in the field of pile foundation. They come from 9 universities, 6 famousresearch and design institutions and 9 famous engineering enterprisesnationwide. It is really a great work of the generations of representativeexperts and scholars in the field of pile foundation. The chief editor, ShiPeidong is a senior expert of pile and pile foundation in China and has beengranted with one award of World Chinese Major Academic Achievements, 2 nationalpatents for practical model and 3 science and technological progress awards atthe ministerial and provincial level.
