PERFORMANCE OF EMBANKMENTS AND CUTTINGS IN GAULT CLAY IN KENT
The M26 motorway, and adjacent section of the M25 motorway and the M20 motorway in Kent run along the outcrop of the gault clay which is notorious for its swelling/shrinkage behaviour. In addition the near-surface layers of the clay have been severely affected by periglacial action forming relatively weak soliflucted and cryoturbated zones. The paper describes various trials carried out for the embankments and cuttings on these schemes, and the resulting earthworks designs, and their subsequent performance particularly where failure occurred. For the covering abstract of the symposium see IRRD 286603. (Author/TRRL)
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Supplemental Notes:
- From Proceedings of the Symposium on Failures in Earthworks, organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers, held in London, March 6-7, 1985.
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Corporate Authors:
Thomas Telford Limited
London, United Kingdom -
Authors:
- Garrett, C
- Wale, J H
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1985
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 93-111
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Clay; Design; Earthwork; Embankments; Excavations; Failure; Performance; Shrinkage; Slope stability; Soils; Swelling; Swelling soils; Till
- Old TRIS Terms: Glacial deposits; Soil shrinkage; Soil swell
- ITRD Terms: 4177: Clay; 8525: Conference; 2812: Cutting (earthworks); 9011: Design (overall design); 2937: Drainage; 2801: Embankment; 5520: Failure; 2752: Motorway; 5762: Pore water pressure; 5531: Shear; 6230: Shear box; 4743: Shrinkage; 5722: Site investigation; 5783: Slope stability; 5544: Strength (mater); 5575: Stress (in material); 5203: Swelling (soil); 8119: United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00465006
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- ISBN: 0 7277 0243 2
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 31 1988 12:00AM