THE MEASUREMENT, SELECTION AND USE OF DESIGN PARAMETERS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING. VOLUME 1

Continued from TRIS 334804. Estimation of the bedding coefficient for dimensioning of circular tunnel lining; Earth pressure at rest in design of retaining structures; Tentative Probability evaluation of structural safety (This paper was presented in French); Influence of stress history on undrained behaviour of soft clays; Evaluation of generalized parameters in soil dynamics to reliability of foundations; Positive and negative shear in geotechnical engineering; Analysis of transcona elevator collapse by the method of the theory of plastic non-homogeneity of clay soils; The clay behaviour and the selection of design parameters; Analysis of safety factors of bearing capacity for large diameter piles; On the parameters of secondary consolidation of clays; The process of soil filtration--its physics and the approach in engineering practice. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, held at Brighton.
• Corporate Authors:

  British Geotechnical Society

  Great George Street, Westminster
  London SW1,   England 
• Authors:
  • Rozsa, L
  • Kovacs, G
  • Rymzsa, B
  • Salembier, M
  • Sanchez, J M
  • SAGASETA, C
  • Ballester, F
  • Sinitsyn, A P
  • Sobotka, Z
  • Stroganov, A S
  • Wittmann, L
  • Ter-Martirosyan, Z G
  • Tavenas, F
  • LEROUEIL, S
  • Tejchman, A
  • Gwizdala, K
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 310 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Conferences; Design; Earth pressure; Engineering; Foundation soils; Geotechnical engineering; Retaining walls; Saturated soils; Soft clays; Stresses; Structural design; Tunnel lining
• Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria; Undrained conditions
• ITRD Terms: 3085: Bearing capacity; 4177: Clay; 5787: Coefficient of subgrade reaction; 5905: Compressibility; 8525: Conference; 5791: Consolidation (soil); 5735: Earth pressure at rest; 5520: Failure; 3377: Foundation; 5916: Homogeneity; 5567: Load; 3399: Pile; 5922: Plasticity; 6534: Probability; 3359: Retaining wall; 5504: Safety coefficient; 4315: Seepage; 5531: Shear; 4156: Soil; 5755: Soil mechanics; 5575: Stress (in material); 3385: Tunnel lining; 5782: Undrained soil
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00334805
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0 7277 0080 4
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1981 12:00AM