Journal of Geotechnical Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Consolidation After Undrained Piezocone Penetration. II: Interpretation 

      Mohsen M. Baligh; Jacques‐Noel Levadoux (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      A rational interpretation method for estimating the in situ consolidation and permeability characteristics of clays from pore pressure dissipation measurements after piezocone penetration is presented. The method is based ...

    • Piston Core Properties and Disturbance Effects 

      Harold W. Olsen; Thomas L. Rice; Paul W. Mayne; Ram D. Singh (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Laboratory geotechnical data on piston cores from 31 sites on the mid‐Atlantic Upper Continental Slope show the near‐surface sediments vary from normally consolidated to somewhat overconsolidated clayey silts and silty ...

    • Permanent Strains from Cyclic Variable‐Amplitude Loadings 

      Harry E. Stewart (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Cyclic triaxial tests were performed on a well‐graded railroad ballast with a maximum particle size of 38 mm (1.5 in.). Samples were compacted in a split mold to reproduceable density states and subjected to repeated ...

    • Permeation of Compacted Clay with Organic Chemicals 

      David E. Foreman; David E. Daniel (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Hydraulic conductivities were measured on three compacted clays that were permeated with water, methanol, and heptane in rigid‐wall and flexible‐wall permeameters. The type of permeameter had little effect when the soils ...

    • Dynamic Compaction in Friable Loess 

      Alan J. Lutenegger (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      An experimental investigation was conducted to determine the change in engineering properties of a collapsible loess in Bulgaria resulting from dynamic compaction. The results of in situ tests conducted before and after ...

    • Stress Distribution in Anisotropic Compliance of Jointed Rock 

      Brian A. Chappell (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      In order to determine the deformational response of a rock mass, the rock mass is often considered and characterized as an anisotropic composite material. This compliance is generally defined in terms of deformation; the ...

    • Bearing Capacity Tests on Reinforced Sand Subgrades 

      B. P. Verma; A. N. R. Char (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Bearing capacity tests on model footings on sand subgrades reinforced with galvanized rods placed vertically in the subgrade have shown beneficial effects of the reinforcements. The improvement compares favorably with the ...

    • Passive Pressure During Seismic Loading 

      Trevor G. Davies; Rowland Richards, Jr.; Kuang‐Hsiang Chen (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      The results of a parametric study (based on a Mononobe-Okabe analysis) of passive earth pressure resistance of cohesionless soils under dynamic loading are presented. Since passive resistance decreases with increasing ...

    • Earth Dam Construction by Dolomite Filled into Water 

      Abdul Rehman Kh. Salem (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      A method of compacting dolomite into water as a part of Al‐Qadisiya Dam core construction is discussed in light of laboratory and field tests. Main characteristics of dolomitic soils are compared with the requirements for ...

    • Interaction Analysis Of Anchor‐Soil Systems 

      C. S. Desai; A. Muqtadir; F. Scheele (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Interaction analysis and understanding of the mechanism of stresses and deformations in anchor‐soil systems can require consideration of three‐dimensional geometry, nonlinear soil behavior, and relative motions at the ...

    • Stochastic Model For Productivity Estimating 

      Emmanuel K. Manatakis (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      A stochastic model, which concerns the functional relationship between the parameters of the soil and the parameters of the machines used, is presented. The problem of similarity between the variables of the soil‐machine ...

    • Prediction of Compressibility of Overconsolidated Uncemented Soils 

      T. S. Nagaraj; B. R. Srinivasa Murthy (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Overconsolidated soils exhibit a bilinear e-log p relationship. During virgin compression, microstructural units form larger stable groups, thereby reducing the operating specific surface and, in turn, net osmotic repulsive ...

    • Regional Method to Assess Offshore Slope Stability 

      Homa J. Lee; Brian D. Edwards (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      The slope stability of some offshore environments can be evaluated by using only conventional acoustic profiling and short‐core sampling, followed by laboratory consolidation and strength testing. The test results are ...

    • Analyzing Permanent Drift Due to Cyclic Loads 

      George Bouckovalas; W. Allen Marr, Jr.; John T. Christian (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      An analytical model has been developed to predict permanent stresses and strains in sands under cyclic loading for general drainage and boundary conditions. Here the model is combined with the finite element method to ...

    • Effect of Soil Failure on Soil‐Steel Structures 

      A. K. Dessouki; G. R. Monforton (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      A plane‐strain finite element analysis procedure is used to investigate the interaction of soil failure and conduit instability in soil‐steel structures. Beam‐column elements, interface elements, constant strain and linear ...

    • Slide in Upstream Slope of Lake Shelbyville Dam 

      D. N. Humphrey; G. A. Leonards (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Lake Shelbyville Dam is located in central Illinois. It is a 108‐ft (33‐m) high earth dam that was completed in 1970. A slide occurred in the steeper portion of its upstream slope immediately after construction and before ...

    • Uncertainty about p‐y Curves for Piles in Soft Clays 

      Sonia E. Ruiz (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      Criteria for estimating the first two probabilistic moments of the normalized parameters of

    • Role of Load Tests in Friction Pile Design 

      Amr S. Azzouz (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      In situ measurements of stresses and pore pressures on a model pile shaft, the Piezo‐Lateral Stress (PLS) cell, are combined with theoretical analyses to reconstruct the conditions of a large‐scale pile load test at a site ...

    • Long‐Term Behavior of Buried Large‐Span Culverts 

      Michael McVay; Panayiotis Papadopoulos (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)
      A study is reported on the modeling of large‐span flexible corrugated culverts in the centrifuge environment with emphasis on simulating the construction sequence and long‐term viscous consolidation behavior in cohesive ...

    • Discussion of “<i>Multidimensional Probabilistic Consolidation</i>” by Daekyoo Hwang and M. W. Witczak (August, 1984) 

      Joel W. Massmann (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1986)