FACTORS CONTROLLING THE STABILITY OF CLAY FILLS IN BRITAIN

The design of clay fills, such as those used for embankment dams, is governed primarily by stability, and hence by strength and the development of pore pressures during construction and in the long term. The paper will review laboratory and field data for the drained and undrained strength, and consolidation and pore pressure characteristics of fills derived from a range of the clays encountered in Britain. The paper will concentrate on problems associated with construction and with the ultimate stability of grassed slopes. Stability during rapid drawdonw will not be considered.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Clay Fills. Proceedings of the Conference held at The Institation of Civil Engineers, 14-15 November 1978.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Civil Engineers

  One Great George Street, Westminster
  London,   United Kingdom  SW1P 3AA
• Authors:
  • VAUGHAN, P R
  • HIGHT, D W
  • Sodha, V G
  • Walbancke
• Conference:
  • Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 205-217

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Clay; Compression; Conferences; Consolidation; Consolidations; Construction; Drained soil; Embankments; Fills; Grasses; Plasticity; Pore pressure; Pore water pressures; Saturated soils; Slope stability; Soil stabilization; Stability (Mechanics); Strength of materials; Stresses; Undrained shear strength
• Uncontrolled Terms: Undrained soils
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Embankment stability
• ITRD Terms: 4177: Clay; 5532: Compression; 8525: Conference; 5791: Consolidation (soil); 5781: Drained soil; 2801: Embankment; 5922: Plasticity; 5762: Pore water pressure; 5783: Slope stability; 5930: Stability; 5544: Strength (mater); 5575: Stress (in material); 5782: Undrained soil; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Construction; Geotechnology; Highways; I51: Earthworks and Soil Drainage;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311740
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0 7277 0069 3
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 1980 12:00AM