[PDF] Construction Of Embankments Across Peaty Soils eBook

Author : William F. Van Impe
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0203946294

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Ground improvement is an established technique in foundation engineering. In recent decades, modern methods of ground improvement have utilised explosives, impact energy, thermal treatment of the soil, vacuum consolidation, vibratory compaction technologies, stabilization and solidification of soft soils, as well as combined systems of ingenious gr

Author : J. Hartlén
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1996-11-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080530818

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More and more civil engineering constructions are being built on soft soils. As areas with better foundations are used up the necessity to be able to build structures on soft soils increases. The most troublesome of soft soils are organic soils due mainly to their high compressibility (much higher than in mineral soils), and also their very low shear strength. The large diversity of organic soils with respect to their origin as well as their properties make classification, testing, and engineering prediction of behaviour, very difficult. For this reason, engineers try, in general, to avoid constructing on deep layers of organic soils. If forced, by necessity, to do so, they manage with light structures e.g. embankments or low buildings. The authors of this book have been involved in a joint research project on the testing of embankments on organic soils. This was carried out in the North-Western part of Poland by the Swedish Geotechnical Institute and the Department of Geotechnics of Warsaw Agricultural University. The results of their research is presented in this new book and provides a valuable insight into this growing area in the field of engineering geology.

Author : G. den Hoedt
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Geomembranes
ISBN : 9061911206

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First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : R. Kerry Rowe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 146151729X

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Preface. Dedication. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Basic Behavior and Site Characterization. 1. Introduction; R.K. Rowe. 2. Basic Soil Mechanics; P.V. Lade. 3. Engineering Properties of Soils and Typical Correlations; P.V. Lade. 4. Site Characterization; D.E. Becker. 5. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Property Assessment; D.G. Fredlund, et al. 6. Basic Rocks Mechanics and Testing; K.Y. Lo, A.M. Hefny. 7. Geosynthetics: Characteristics and Testing; R.M. Koerner, Y.G. Hsuan. 8. Seepage, Drainage and Dewatering; R.W. Loughney. Foundations and Pavements. 9. Shallo.