<p>Settlement evaluation of spread foundations on heavily preconsolidated cohesive soils. The paper presents the results of fi eld and laboratory tests performed on the heavily preconsolidated boulder clays which prevail on the campus of the Warsaw University ...

<p>A part of Toulouse&rsquo;s underground line B has been excavated by a 7.8 meters diameter earth-pressure balance machine. A comprehensive monitoring section has been installed in the Compans garden at a point where the tunnel cover is 12.8-meter and is ...

Description of soil - soft rock behavior and soil weakening that can explain natural slope failures.

The drained residual shear strength of overconsolidated clays is an important parameter in assessing the stability of slopes that contain a preexisting shear surface. Laboratory Bromhead ring shear apparatus and 32 clay evaluation of drained residual shear ...

Empirical expressions relating stress history to measured piezocone parameters are derived from regression analyses using a database compiled from 205 clay sites worldwide

Mathematic evaluation of K-Integral of shear surface of overconsolidated clay soils in slope stability analysis.

The objective of this investigation was to review existing information concerning slope failures in stiff, fissured clays and shales, and to study the influence of lateral stresses on the stress conditions around excavated slopes. These studies, which were ...