SOIL MECHANICS

This collection of seven reports is of interest to soils engineers and designers concerned with pipes and culverts, with reinforced earth and with bearing capacities. In addition to papers on pavement design, there is presented the analysis of large-scale field studies of flexible pipe culverts that led to a recommendation that a ring compression method with a higher factor of safety be adopted for future construction. The paper on reinforced earth embankments is based on Rankine's state-of-stress theory and a new strain energy principle. A method for determining the critical bearing capacity of a footing on saturated, undrained clay is discussed. A new solution to the deformational behavior of beams on nonhomogenous bases concludes the series of reports.

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• Conference:
  • 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1974-1-21 to 1974-1-25
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 92 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 510
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Beams; Clay; Culverts; Embankments; Foundations; Soil mechanics; Soil stabilization
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Geotechnology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081209
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309023548
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 27 1975 12:00AM