Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together twenty of the most important papers by the last Professor Peter Rolfe Vaughan on geotechnical engineering.
Table of ContentsA 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
