Abstract: Marls of a very high initial strength, are sandwiched between late pliocene lignites in the extended lacustrine deposits of Ptolemais, Greece. As they are extracted as waste from deep open pit lignite mines they are carried ...

Abstract: Proper planning of preloading requires time predictions that cannot be obtained reliably from laboratory odometer tests. Time forecasts should be based on field permeability tests or test fills. The settlement versus log ...

Abstract: The current procedure for controlling the quality of compaction in the granular shell of an earth dam is to compare the in situ density with the respective maximum laboratory density. This can be tedious on a routine basis ...

Abstract: Field quality control on an earthdam consists of three complementary and somewhat overlapping operations: visual inspection and continual corrections of the works in progress, gauging the process and the product, and ...