The bookcomprehensively collates, revises and updates “Pile and Pile FoundationHandbook” (1^st 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 (1^stEdition) 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.