GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERNG

D.P. Giles, in Encyclopedia of Geology, 2005 Introduction Geotechnical engineering has recently (1999) been formally defined in a Memorandum of Understanding on the proposed unification of the British Institution of Civil Engineers Ground Board and the British Geotechnical Society. Appendix A of that memorandum, establishing the British Geotechnical Association, sets out the following definition: Geotechnical engineering is the