Abstract
Professor Muir Wood puts an interesting slant on soil mechanics theory: all theoretical solutions are just models. This proposition allows him to write a book on geotechnical modelling which is populated by many of the simple, classical, solutions that are the stock in trade of the undergraduate (or maybe Masters’) course in soil mechanics. However, the central idea means that some of the solutions that are lumped together are a rather eclectic collection: for example, under ‘empirical models’ we find the vane test, the pressuremeter, cone tests and their correlation with settlement of footings on sand, and Skempton & Bjerrum's slant on consolidation settlement. However, the idea is exhausted by the end of …
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