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An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering offers a descriptive, elementary introduction to geotechnical engineering with applications to civil engineering practice. It focuses on the engineering classification, behavior and properties of soils nece
Publikováno v:
Journal of Transportation Engineering. 120:603-616
Results of a study to evaluate the seasonal variation of the resilient modulus of granular soils for flexible‐pavement design are presented. The field temperature and moisture content underneath the pavement were monitored at two sites using soil m
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division. 100:200-205
A computer program was developed to assist design engineers in their calculations for a sheet pile section under given soil conditions and a given factor of safety in which the Free Earth Support Method is used. The purpose of this study was to inves
Autor:
William D. Kovacs
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division. 105:1-10
Field measurements of the velocity just before impact of a Borros AB Standard Penetration Test (SPT) automatic trip hammer indicate that the average delivered energy is 99% of the theoretical available, free-fall energy. It is expected that other tri
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division. 107:996-1002
Computerized solution of the factor of safety for slope stability via limiting equilibrium analysis and the method of slices is extremely common. However, computerized failure surface generation and analysis has been limited to simple regular geometr
Autor:
William D. Kovacs, Sunil Sharma
Publikováno v:
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 72:1011-1024
The city of Memphis, which is situated very close to the inferred epicenter of one of the three major 1811 to 1812 earthquakes, is in a potentially hazardous zone which will be susceptible to the usual seismic hazards. By recognizing the high level o
Publikováno v:
Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. 110:359-374
Laboratory thermal probe tests performed on an AASHTO standard reference material a silty clay showed that the soil thermal behavior cor relates with the limit states of finegrained soils. Over 80 ...
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division. 108:599-620
A field measurement system and procedure which measures the energy delivered by a drill rig system was developed and successfully used to study the factors which affect delivered energy. Results are presented which indicate that the energy delivered
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division. 97:59-75
Cyclic, simple shear, and free vibration tests were performed on 12-in × 12-in × 6-in block samples of a remolded 3:1 kaolinite-bentonite clay mixture of various water contents. The simple shear tests were performed by using predetermined sinusoida
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Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division. 97:441-455
Surface acceleration measurements on small scale clay banks show good agreement with predicted response using the finite element method of analysis incorporating laboratory determined dynamic soil properties. The model test embankments (i.e., a soil