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)

• Corporate Authors:

  Editora Edgard Bluecher LTDA

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

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 259-270
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Editora Edgard Bluecher LTDA
  • Publisher: Editora Edgard Bluecher LTDA

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Construction management; Earth pressure; Embankments; Field tests; Flow; Permeability; Piezometers; Slurry trenches; Soil mechanics; Soils
• Uncontrolled Terms: Active earth pressure; Site investigation
• Old TRIS Terms: Slurry trench construction
• Subject Areas: Construction; Geotechnology; Highways;

Filing Info

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