Abstract: The paper begins with a historical review of reinforced soil technology, beginning with nature and the ancients, the development of Terre Armée or Reinforced Earth by Vidal and Lee, and ending with the early uses of ...

Abstract: During the reconstruction of a state highway in 1991, a full-scale test section was established at a site with a history of poor pavement performance, most likely because of a soft silty clay subgrade, high ground-water ...

Abstract: A well planned and carefully executed program of oedometer tests on high quality undisturbed samples is shown to provide considerable practical information about the soil properties of a natural, very stiff clay deposit. ...

Abstract: A series of strain‐controlled model pressuremeter tests were performed in cohesive soils inside a calibration chamber. Stress disturbance was introduced by unloading or preloading surrounding soil prior to the pressuremeter ...

Abstract: Because of their practicality and simplicity, consolidated isotropic undrained compression (CIUC) triaxial tests are commonly used in practice to determine the undrained shear strength of cohesive soils, even though CAUC or

Abstract: Anisotropy of clays was studied from cuboidal shear tests on two different clays that were artificially sedimented in a slurry consolidometer. These were supplemented by consolidation tests on specimens cut at different ...