Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g
Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g
ISBN: 978-0-7277-3620-8
Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
This book brings together twenty of the most important papers by the last Professor Peter Rolfe Vaughan on geotechnical engineering. Selected by Peter's closest colleagues at Imperial College and the Geotechnical Consulting Group, these papers are reproduced along with the obituary published in Géotechnique, a full listing of his bibliography, some photographs and personal reflections by David Hight, David Potts, Nebojša Kova; and Finlay Jardine on working with Peter.
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A note on sealing piezometers in boreholes
Pore pressure changes and the delayed failure of cutting slopes in over-consolidated clays
The design, construction and performance of Cow Green embankment dam
Factors controlling the stability of clay fills in Britain
Weathering, structure and in-situ stress in residual soils
Empingham Dam – Design, construction and performance
Finite element analysis of progressive failure of Carsington embankment
The general and congruent effects of structure in natural soils and weak rocks
The failure of Carsington Dam
Assumption, prediction and reality in geotechnical engineering
Analysis of progressive failure and cracking in old British dams
Delayed collapse of cut slopes in stiff clay
Clay interface shear resistance
Undrained behaviour of brecciated Upper Lias Clay at Empingham Dam
Cracking and erosion of the rolled clay core of Balderhead Dam and the measures adopted for its repair
The deformations of the Empingham valley slope
Design of filters for clay cores of dams
Indexing Engineering properties of residual soils
Engineering behaviour of weak rocks: some answers and some questions
