Foundation Design Theory and Practice : foundation soils and superstructures, engineering properties of soil, bearing capacity, settlement, stresses and lateral pressures in soils, rational design of shallow foundations, analysis of footings on elastic foundations, numerical and finite difference methods, finite element method, parameters and criteria for foundation design, deep foundations, piles, drilled piers, caissons and pile-raft systems, design of piles and pile groups, machine foundations, structural design of foundations, analysis of foundations, bending moment, deflection and cracking, relative depth of footings, framed foundations, dynamic interaction of rigid foundations and soil media, dynamic loads, type of machine foundations, maximum load on pile without wind, combination of loads and moments for maximum load on pile, design of reinforcement inpile.