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THE ENGINEERING BEHAVIOUR OF INDUSTRIAL AND URBAN FILL. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, 23-25TH APRIL, 1979

The following papers were presented at the symposium: Reclamation - "Conscience or Necessity"; Practical Considerations of Waste Landfill Operations; The Reclamation of Derelict Land; Geotechnical Characteristics of Landfilled Domestic Refuse; Chemical Considerations in Construction on Filled Ground; Control and Treatment of Leachate from Industrial and Domestic Wastes - Gas Emission from Waste Landfill Sites - its Regulation and Control; Lithology, Behaviour and Properties of Coarse Unburnt Colliery Spoils in Relation to their use as Fill; Redevelopment of Contaminated Land; Notes on the Development of Landfill Sites; Suitability of a Derelict Industrial Site for Low Cost Housing; the Investigation of a Quarry Waste Silt Lagoon on the M42 Motorway; Stability of a Colliery Waste Heap in South Wales; An Application of Surface Electrical Resistivity Methods to the Delineation of Spoil Tip Leachate; Geophysical Surveys at Two Landfill Sites in the West Midlands; Utilization of Industrial Waste Materials in Yorkshire Highway Works; The Engineered Environment; Experimental Embankment in Phosphogypsum; the Control of Ground Improvement Contracts Using Site Investigation Techniques; Problems and Solutions in Developing Large Areas of Filled Ground at Warrington New Town; Field Studies of PFA in Partially Submerged Conditions; The Engineering use of PFA; Trench Filled PFA in Colliery Waste Supporting Old People's Bungalows. Field Observations of a Trial of Dynamic Consolidation on an Old Refuse Tip in the East End of London; Dynamic Consolidation of Refuse at Cwmbran; Design and Performance of a Road Embankment Constructed on Fill; Settlement Caused by Driving a Tunnel Through fill; Some Observations on Settlements of Houses on Treated Urban Fill; Residential Development on Reclaimed Opencast Mining Sites; Comparison of Settlement Rates on Back Filled Opencast Mining Sites; Observations of the Settlement of Restored Backfill of Opencast Mine Sites. (TRRL)

  • Corporate Authors:

    Birmingham University, England

    Department of Civil Engineering, P.O. Box 363
    Birmingham B15 2TT, Warwickshire,   England 
  • Publication Date: 1979-8

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  • Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: n.p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00322432
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: May 21 1981 12:00AM