Journal of Geotechnical Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Closure to “<i>Compaction and Related Properties of Retorted Oil Shale</i>” by Wesley G. Holtz (October, 1983) 

      Wesley G. Holtz (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)

    • Evaluating Stability of Open Shafts in Soft Clay 

      Ulrich W. Stoll (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      A method proposed for determining the safety factor against wall collapse of a circular, unbraced excavation in a homogeneous soft clay is extended to account for a varying strength profile. A trial analysis indicates that ...

    • K0-Cu/συ0′ Trends for Overconsolidated Clays 

      Paul W. Mayne (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Available laboratory data on clays tested for both lateral stress coefficient behavior and undrained shear strength are reviewed. Since the coefficient of earth pressure at-rest and normalized undrained shear strength ...

    • Cyclic Triaxial Tests on Remoulded Clays 

      David C. Procter; Jalal H. Khaffaf (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Data are presented from cyclic triaxial tests on remoulded clays with load or displacement control. The ability of simple load control tests to predict strains developed in complex (storm profile) tests is found inadequate. ...

    • Natural Sr Concentrations and Kd Determinations 

      Holly M. Johnston; Robert W. Gillham (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Strontium distribution coefficients were determined on samples of glacial till from two sites in Southern Ontario to investigate the effect of natural strontium concentrations on measured distribution coefficient (Kd) ...

    • Metallic Powders in Reinforced Earth 

      Masaru Hoshiya; Jnanendra Nath Mandal (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      The effect and the possible performance of soil-metallic powders reinforcement systems are evaluated. A series of undrained triaxial compression tests were carried out on cylindrical samples of silty clay reinforced with ...

    • Sheetpile Interlock Tension in Cellular Cofferdams 

      Mark P. Rossow (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      A method is presented for calculating the interlock tensions in the sheetpile walls of a circular cellular cofferdam. A horizontal strip of unit width of wall is considered and the governing equations are derived from ...

    • Footings and Constitutive Laws 

      Shamsher Prakash; Swami Saran; U. N. Sharan (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      In this paper, a novel analysis is proposed to predict the pressure‐settlement characteristics of footings using the hyperbolic stress‐strain curves of soils as the constitutive law. The analysis is competent to incorporate ...

    • Bearing Capacity of Reinforced Sand Subgrades 

      Richard J. Fragaszy; Evert Lawton (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Laboratory bearing capacity model tests were performed on both reinforced and unreinforced sand loaded by a strip footing. The effects of soil density and reinforcing strip length were investigated. The tests show that a ...

    • Triaxial Testing of Devonian Oil Shale 

      Ken P. Chong; Jui‐Lin Chen; George Dana; Samuel Sailor (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Triaxial tests with confining pressures of up to 2000 psi (14 MPa) to simulate the overburden pressure in oil shale formations are performed on duplicate sets of cores taken from Silver Point Quad in DeKalb County, Tennessee. ...

    • Dynamic Analysis of Railroad Embankments 

      Desh Deepak; M. Venkatkati (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Railroad embankments are designed for almost no residual soil displacement by providing adequate depth of ballast. Formulations for evaluating dynamic shear modulus and damping ratio from commonly known soil indices such ...

    • Earth Foundation Treatment at Jebba Dam Site 

      Zoltan V. Solymar; Barak C. Iloabachie; Ramesh C. Gupta; Leslie R. Williams (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      The Jebba Main Dam is founded on alluvial sands up to 230 ft (70 m) in depth. Soil investigation established the presence of locally loose materials at various depths. The test methods of the original investigation are ...

    • Closure to “<i>Investigation of Failures</i>” by Gerald A. Leonards (February, 1982) 

      G. A. Leonards (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)

    • Discussion of “<i>Investigation of Failures</i>” by Gerald A. Leonards (February, 1982) 

      T. J. Pilecki (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)

    • Discussion of “<i>Investigation of Failures</i>” by Gerald A. Leonards (February, 1982) 

      G. E. Bratchell (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)

    • Vibroflotation Compaction at Thermalito Afterbay 

      Leslie F. Haider, Jr.; William D. Hammond; Penny S. Ross (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      A test program using vibroflotation to density silty sands beneath surface day and silt layers is presented. Vibroflotation compaction columns were constructed along the downstream toe of an embankment dam at two locations. ...

    • Discussion of “<i>Investigation of Failures</i>” by Gerald A. Leonards (February, 1982) 

      H. Cambefort (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)

    • Vertical Stress Formulas for Triangular Loading 

      Ramon Jarquio; Victor Jarquio (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Exact formulas for the calculation of vertical stresses in soil are presented without the use of charts and tables. Formulas are derived using the basic Boussinesq's equation for a point load to calculate the vertical ...

    • Progress in Rockfill Dams 

      J. Barry Cooke (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Karl Terzaghi, a major contributor to progress in embankment dams, made significant contributions to the understanding of properties of rockfill and to the improvement of design of the concrete‐face rockfill dam. His ...

    • Horizontal Response of Piles in Layered Soils 

      George Gazetas; Ricardo Dobry (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      An inexpensive and realistic procedure is developed for estimating the lateral dynamic stiffness and damping of flexible piles embedded in arbitrarily layered soil deposits. Starting point is the determination of the pile ...