SLURRY TRENCH CUTOFFS AND THE IN-SITU PERMEABILITY TEST. DE MELLO VOLUME; A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR DR. VICTOR F. B. DE MELLO IN HONOR OF HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING IN LATIN AMERICA

In this paper, a summary is made of the findings resulting from work carried out on one of the largest slurry trench projects in the world, in 1961, for a 52 km long dike enclosure for evaporation ponds at the Dead Sea Pokash Works, Israel. Due to disagreement over the construction method to be used, between the contractor and design engineer, a 4 million dollar investigation of slurry trench construction procedures was undertaken. This focused upon the procedure for reliably conducting and evaluating in-situ permeability tests in impervions, low density, low shear strength soils in an environment of low containment stress. For the covering abstract of this book see IRRD 836508. (TRRL)

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    Editora Edgard Bluecher LTDA

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  • Authors:
    • Leps, T M
  • Publication Date: 1991

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  • English

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  • Accession Number: 00617318
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Nov 30 1991 12:00AM