From Research to Practice in Geotechnical Engineering
This Geotechnical Special Publication honors Dr. John H. Schmertmann, professor emeritus and P.E., for his contributions to civil engineering. This volume contains his biography, a list of his students and writings, and reprints of his selection of 16 representative papers from his career. Twenty-eight new, mostly invited papers are included, covering a variety of subjects, such as the installation and testing of piles; pile-structure interaction; liquefaction and its mitigation; case histories of settlement and landslide mitigation and capping a Superfund landfill; and computer modeling. Among the authors are six members of the National Academy of Engineering, including Dr. Schmertmann.Everyone working in the geotechnical profession will find something interesting and useful herein.
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Supplemental Notes:
- © 2008 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Corporate Authors:
American Society of Civil Engineers
1801 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, VA United States 20191-4400 -
Conference:
- Symposium Honoring Dr. John H. Schmertmann for His Contributions to Civil Engineering at Research to Practice in Geotechnical Engineering Congress 2008
- Location: New Orleans Louisiana, United States
- Date: 2008-3-9 to 2008-3-12
- Publication Date: 2008-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Pagination: 671p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Biographies; Civil engineering; Engineers; Geotechnical engineering; Research
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Research; I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01538427
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780784409626
- Files: TRIS, ASCE
- Created Date: Sep 25 2014 9:01AM