Elementary Soil Mechanics, by Professor M. Kavvadas, National Technical
University of Athens, Department of Civil Engineering, and available in .pdf
format in Greek language only. Taken from this site.
Lars Ammann, (2003). Cation exchange and adsorption on clays and clay
minerals. PhD Thesis of the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences,
Christian - Albrechts University Kiel.
Bearing Capacity of Soils , Engineering Design Manual (EM 1110-1-1905),
available by the US Army Corps of Engineers (1992).
DM 7.01 Soil Mechanics The well-known Design Manual of the Department of the
Navy is available in pdf format in this site of the Navy.
DM 7.02 Foundations and Earth Structures. The well-known Design Manual of
the Department of the Navy is available in pdf format in this site of the Navy.
J. Colmenares Montañez (2002) - "Suction and volume changes of compacted
sand-bentonite mixtures". PhD thesis, Imperial College, University of London.
P. Smith (2003) - "Numerical analysis of infiltration into partially saturated soil
slopes". PhD Thesis. University of London.
R. Rolo (2003) - "The anisotropic stress-strain-strength behaviour of brittle
sediments". PhD thesis, University of London.
A.N.Schofield, (2000). Behaviour of a Soil Paste Continuum. Technical Report:
CUED/D-GEOTECHNICAL /TR311.
A. Grammatikopoulou (2004) - "Development, implementation and application of
kinematic hardening models for overconsolidated clays". University of London.
A. Jotisankasa (2005) - "Collapse behaviour of a compacted silty clay". PhD
Thesis. University of London.
A. Gasparre (2005) - "Advanced laboratory characterisation of London Clay".
PhD Thesis. University of London.
Dr. James K. Mitchell, (1995). The Role of Soil Mechanics in Environmental
Geotechnics. The Third Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas.
K. Ventouras (2005) - "Engineering Behaviour of Thanet Sand". PhD Thesis.
University of London.
M.D. Bolton, (1986). The Strength and dilatancy of sands + Discussion Paper.
Geotechnique 36, No. 1, 65-78.
S. Nishimura (2005) - "Laboratory study on anisotropy of natural London Clay".
PhD Thesis. University of London.
R. Monroy (2006) - "The influence of load and suction changes on the volumetric
behaviour of compacted London Clay". PhD Thesis. University of London.
Arnold Verruijt (2001). Soil Mechanics in pdf format. Delft University of
Technology.
A.N.Schofield, (2001). Re-Appraisal of Terzaghi's Soil Mechanics. A draft of an
invited Special Lecture at the International Society of Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering Conference in Istabul.
Engineer Manual. (EM 1110-1904). Engineering and Design Settlement Analysis.
Available by the US Army Corps of Engineers (1990), Washington.
Earth Manual 3rd Edition. U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of reclamation
(1998), Denver.
P.J. Sabatini, R.C. Bachus, P.W. Mayne, J.A. Schneider, T.E. Zettler, FHWA & U.S
Department of Transportation (2002). Geotechnical Engineering Circular No.5,
Evaluation of Soil and Rock Properties. Technical Manual.
A.N. Schofield and C.P. Wroth. Critical State Soil Mechanics. University of
Cambridge.
G.R. McDowell & M.D. Bolton, (2001). Micro Mechanics of Elastic Soil. Soils &
Foundations, VOL.41, nO.6, 147-152, Japanese Geotechnical Society.
Dr. Ralph B. Peck, (1993). The coming of Age of Soil Mechanics: 1920 - 1970. The
1st Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University, College Station.
Dr. G. Geoffrey Meyerhof, (1994). Evolution of Safety Factors & Geotechnical Limit
State Design. The 2nd Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University,
College Station.
Naresh C. Samtani, PE, PhD & Edward A. Nowatzki, PE, PhD, (2006). Soils and
Foundations Reference Manual: Document Info. National Highway Institute (NHI)
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Amy B. Cerato and Alan J. Lutenegger, (2006). Shrinkage of Clays. Proceedings
of the 4th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Phoenix.
Kevin J. Gaspard, P.E. (2002). Rapid drying Soils with Microwave ovens.
Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Louisiana Department of
Transportation and Development.
Engineer Manual (EM 1110-2-1909), 1970. Engineering and Design. Calibration
of Laboratory Soils Testing Equipment. Department of the Army. US Army Corps
of Engineers, Washington D.C.
A. Rahnenma, G. Habibagahi and A. Ghahramani, (2003). A new simple Shear
Apparatus for Testing unsaturated Soils. Iranian Journal of Science and
Technology, Transaction B, Vol.27, No. B1. Shiraz University. Iran.
Engineering Manual (EM 1110-1-1906), 1996. Engineering and Design. Soil
Sampling. Department of the Army. US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C.
A.N. Schofield and C.P. Wroth, (1968). Critical State Soil Mechanics. McGraw-Hill,
London.
Engineer Manual (EM 1110-2-1906), 1970. Engineering and Design. Laboratory
Soils Testing. Department of the Army. US Army Corps of Engineers, Office of the
Chief of Engineers. Washington D.C.
M.D. Bolton, R. English, C.C. Hird, A.N. Schofield, (1973). Ground Displacements in
Centrifugal Models. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Soil
Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Moscow.
O. Fazekas, R. Horn, (2004). Interactions between soil stability and pore water
pressure as a function of the loading time during compaction test. Eurosoil 2004
Congress, Freiburg, Germany.
M.D. Bolton & C.K. Lau, (1988). Scale effects arising from particle size.
Centriguge 88, Corte (ed.), Balkema, Rotterdam.
Bolton M.D. & Wilson J.M.R. (1989). An experimental and theoretical comparison
between static and dynamic torsional soil tests. Discussion Paper. Geotechnique
39, No.4, 585-599.
M.D. Bolton, M.W. Gui, R. Phillips, (1993). Review of Miniature Soil Probes for
Model Tests. 11th Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference, Singapore.
J. Garnier, L. Thorel, R. Lynch, M. Bolton, C. Kechavarzi, A. Treadaway, H.
Coumolos, K. Soga, D. Konig, A. Rezzoug, G. Heibrock, F.A. Weststrate, J.T. Van
der Poel, O. Oung, R.R. Schrijver, R.N. Taylor, S. Robson, S.Spiessl, H.G.B.
Allersma, G.M. Esposito, M. Davis, S. Burkhart, C.M. Merrifield, W.H. Craig, (1998).
NECER: Network of European Centrifuges for Environmental Geotechnic
Research. Centrifuge, Tokyo.
D.J. White, W.A. Take, M.D. Bolton, (2001). Measuring soil deformation in
geotechnical models using digital images and PIV analysis. 10th International
Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. Tucson,
Arizona, pp 997-1002, Balkema, Rotterdam.
M. Erdinc Bilir, Yadigar V. Muftuoglu, Dursun Sari, (2004). A Computer controlled
Triaxial Swelling Test Apparatus. Turkish Journal, Engineering Environmental
Science No.28, 269-280, Tubitak.
G.T. Houlsby, C.P. Wroth, D.M. Wood, (1982). Predictions of the results of
laboratory tests on a clay using a critical state model. Results of the
International Workshop on Constitutive Relations for Soils, Grenoble.
Soil Mechanics Note No.2: Lightweight Piston Sampler for Soft Soils and Loose
Sands, (1969). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service,
Engineering Division, Soil Mechanics Unit. Washington D.C.
Soil Mechanics Note No.9: Permeability of selected clean sands and gravels,
(1984). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Engineering
Division, Soil Mechanics Unit. Washington D.C.
Soil Mechanics Note No.12: ENG-Portable Pinhole Test Apparatus, (1987). U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Engineering Division, Soil
Mechanics Unit. Washington D.C.
Soil Mechanics Note No.8: ENG-Soil Mechanics Testing standards, (1984). U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Engineering Division, Soil
Mechanics Unit. Washington D.C.
T. Koumoto and G.T. Houlsby, (2001). Theory and practice of the fall cone test.
Geotechnique 51, No.8, 701-712.
Usowicz Boguslaw, Usowics Lukasz, (2004). Thermal conductivity of soils -
comparison of experimental results and estimation methods. Eurosoil 2004
Congress, Freiburg, Germany.
A. Tisa and K. Kovari, (1984). Continuous Failure State Direct Shear Tests. Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Rock Mechanics and Rock
Engineering 17, 83-95. Springer-Verlag.
Sophie Messerklinger, Ernst Bleiker, Adrian Zweidler and Sarah M. Springman,
(2004). Displacement measurement with laser scanning in triaxial testing
apparatuses. Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich.
G.T. Houlsby, (1982). Theoretical analysis of the fall cone test. Geotechnique 32,
No. 2, 111-118.
Thomas Michael Weber, (2004). Development of a sand compaction pile
installation tool for the geotechnical drum centriguge. Institute for Geotechnical
Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. XVI European Young
Geotechnical Engineers Conference, Vienna, Austria.
J. Giudici Trausch, C. Basler, T. Weber, S.M. Sringman, (2003). Continuous
loading oedometer testing on three Swiss lacustrine clays. Institute of
Geotechnical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Switzerland.
D.J. White, W.A. Take, M.D. Bolton, S.E. Munachen, (2001). A deformation
measurement system for geotechnical testing based on digital imaging, close-
range photogrammetry, and PIV image analysis. 15th International Conference
on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Instanbul, Turkey. Balkema,
Rotterdam.
D.J. White, A.J. Barefoot, M.D. Bolton, (2001). Centrifuge Modelling of Upheaval
Buckling in Sand. Erratum. IJPMG-International Journal of Physical Modelling in
Geotechnics 2: 19-28.
W.A. Take, M.D. Bolton, (2002). A new device for the measurement of negative
water pressures in centrifuge models. International Conference on Physical
Modelling Geotechnics, St. John's, Newfoundland, 89-94. Balkema, Rotterdam.
D.J. White, W.A. Take and M.D. Bolton, (2003). Soil deformation measurement
using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and photogrammetry. Geotechnique 53,
No.7, 619-631.
G.T. Houlsby, C.P. Wroth, (1982). Determination of undrained strengths by cone
penetration tests. Proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Penetration
Testing. Amsterdam.
Geology Note No.5: 210-VI. ENG - Soil sample size requirements for soil
mechanics laboratory testing, (1991). United States Department of Agriculture,
Soil Conservation Service, Washington D.C.
G.R. Dasari, M.D. Bolton, C.W.W.N. Ng, (1995). Technical Report No: CUED/D/-
SOILS/TR275. Small Strain Measurement using modified LDTs. Cambridge
University Engineering Department.
K.J.L. Stone, C.C. Smith, A.N. Schofield, (1995). Technical Report No: CUED/D-
SOILS/TR296. A Thermally controlled Test Chamber for Centrifuge and
Laboratory Experiments. Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Charles W.W. Ng, (1995). Technical Report No: CUED/D-SOILS/TR282.
Measurement of Small Strains using Semiconductors in Centrifuge Tests.
Cambridge University Engineering Department.
D.J. White, W.A. Take, (2002). Technical Report No: CUED/D-SOILS/TR322. Geo
PIV: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) software for use in geotechnical testing.
Cambridge University Engineering Department.
D.J. White, (2002). The measurement of particle size distribution using the Single
Particle Optical Sizing (SPOS) method. Technical Report: CUED/D-SOILS/TR321.
St. John's College, University of Cambridge.
Lovisa Moritz, (1995). Report 47: Geotechnical Properties of Clay at Elevated
Temperatures. Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI). Linkoping.
Rolf Larsson, (1986). Report 29: Consolidation of soft soils. Swedish
Geotechnical Institute (SGI). Linkoping.
Rolf Larsson, (1977). Report 4: Basic bahaviour of Scandinavian soft clays.
Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI). Linkoping.
Rolf Larsson, (2001). Report 59: Investigations and Load Tests in Clay Till -
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outside Lund in southern Sweden. Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI).
Linkoping.
Rolf Larsson, (1997). Report 54: Investigations and load tests in silty soils.
Results from a series of investigations in silty soils in Sweden. Swedish Council
for Building Research (BFR), Swedish Geotechnical Institute. Linköping.
Alan R. Crumley, Américo L. Fernández, Carlos A. Regalado, (2003).
Compressibility Relationships for Soils in Puerto Rico Correlaciones de
Compresibilidad para Suelos en Puerto Rico. Soil and Rock America, 12th
Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ian F. Collins, Tamsyn Hilder, (2002). A theoretical framework for constructing
elastic/plastic constitutive models of triaxial tests. International Journal for
Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2002; 26:1313–1347 (DOI:
10.1002/nag.247). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Cane Cekerevac and Lyesse Laloui, (2004). Experimental study of thermal
effects on the mechanical behaviour of a clay. International Journal for Numerical
and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2004; 28:209–228 (DOI: 10.1002/nag.
332). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Philippe Gachet, Georg Klubertanz, Laurent Vulliet, Lyesse Laloui, (2003).
Interfacial Behavior of Unsaturated Soil with Small-scale Models and Use of
Image Processing Techniques. Geotechnical Testing Journal, March 2003, Vol. 26,
No. 1 Paper ID GTJ200310127_261. ASTM International, West Conshohocken.
P.J. Galjaard, J.L. Paute, A.R. Dawson, (1993). Comparison and Performance of
Repeated Load Triaxial Test Equipment for Unbound Granular Materials.
Proceedings of Euroflex, LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal, pp 1-26.
J.L. Paute, A.R. Dawson, P.J. Galjaard, (1996). Recommendations for Repeated
Load Triaxial Test Equipment and Procedure for Unbound Granular Materials.
A.R. Dawson, S.D. Gillett, (1998). Assessment of on-sample Instrumentation for
Repeated Load Triaxial Tests. 77th Annual Meeting of the Transportation
Research Board, Washington D.C. Specialist Session on Local and Small Strain
Measurement in Laboratory Determination of Soil and Rock Stiffness.
Amy B. Cerato and Alan J. Lutenegger, (2002). Determination of Surface Area of
Fine-Grained Soils by the Ethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether (EGME) Method.
Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol.25, No.3. ASTM International, West
Conshohocken, PA.
A.J. Lutenegger, A.B. Cerato, (2001). Surface Area and Engineering Properties of
Fine-Grained Soils. Proceedings of the 15th International Turkey Conference of
Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE), Vol. 1, pp. 603-606.
Amy B. Cerato, (2001). Influence of Specific Surface Area on Geotechnical
Characteristics of Fine-Grained Soils. MSc Thesis, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts.
Amy B. Cerato, Alan J. Lutenegger, (2004). Determining the Intrinsic
Compressibility of Fine-Graines Soils. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and
Geoenvironmental Engineering. Vol. 130, No. 8, pp. 872-877.
Amy B. Cerato, Alan J. Lutenegger, (2005). Activity, Relative Activity and Specific
Surface Area of Fine-Grained Soils. Proceedings of the 16th International
Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE). Osaka,
Japan, Sept. 12-16th. Vol. 2, pp. 325-328.
Mostafa A. Ismail, Shambhu S. Sharma and Martin Fahey, (2005). A Small True
Triaxial Apparatus with Wave Velocity Measurement. Geotechnical Testing
Journal, Vol.28, No.2. ASTM International.
Amit Prashant and Dayakar Penumadu, (2005). A Laboratory Study of Normally
Consolidated Kaolin Clay. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 42: 27-237 (2005).
NRC Canada.
J. Medzvieckas, D. Slizyte, V. Stragys, (2004). Soil Mechanics (STGT B 06104)
Laboratory Testing Manual. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Geotechnical
Department.
Georgopoulos Ioannis-Orestis, Vardoulakis Ioannis, (2005). Corrections on the
specimen volume change and axial force in the Wykeham Farrance WF11001/SN:
100257-9 triaxial cell. Laboratory of Geomaterials.
Hsin-Pei Nicol Chang, (2004). The Relationship between Void Ratio and Shear
Wave Velocity of Gold Tailings. Msc Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Build
Environment and Information Technology, University of Pretoria.
Behrooz Ghahremannejad, (2003). Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Two
Reconstituted Clays. PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, Department of Civil
Engineering.
A. Kooistra, P.N.W. Verhoef, W. Broere, D.J.M. Ngan-Tillard, A.F. van Tol, (1998).
Appraisal of Stckiness of Natural Clays from Laboratory Tests. Engineering
Geology and Infrastructure, pages 101-113. Ingeokring.
Murray D. Fredlund, (1998). Unsaturated Seepage Modeling Made Easy.
Geotechnical News, June 1998. Bitech Publishers, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
Murray D. Fredlund, G. Ward Wilson, Delwyn G. Fredlund, (2002). Use of the
grain-size distribution for estimation of the soil-water characteristic curve.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 39:1103-1117 (2002), NRC Canada.
Murray D. Fredlund, D.G. Fredlund, G. Ward Wilson, (2000). An equation to
represent grain-size distribution. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 37:817-827
(2000), NRC Canada.
N.T.M. Thieu, M.D. Fredlund, D.G. Fredlund, V.Q. Hung, (2001). Seepage Modeling
in a Saturated/Unsaturated Soil System. International Conference on
Management of the Land and Water Resources, MLWR, October 20-22, 2001,
Hanoi, Vietnam.
M.D. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, D.G. Fredlund, (2000). Use of Grain-Size Functions in
Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. ASCE Geo-Institute Denver 2000 Symposium,
Denver, Colorado, August 3-8, 2000.
M.D. Fredlund, D.G.Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (2000). Estimation of Volume Change
Functions for Unsaturated Soils. Unsaturated Soils for Asia, Rahardjo, Toll &
Leong (eds), Balkema, Rotterdam.
Claudia E. Zapata, William N. Houston, Sandra L. Houston, Kenneth D. Walsh,
(2000). Soil-Water Characteristic Curve Variability. Advances in Unsaturated
Geotechnics, Denver, Colorado, August 5-8, pp. 84-123.
D.A. Swanson, G. Savci, G. Danziger, R.N. Mohr, T. Weiskopf, (1999). Predicting
the Soil-Water Characteristics of Mine Soils. Proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, Ft. Collins,
Colorado, January 24-27, pp. 345-349.
S.K. Vanapalli, W.S. Sillers and M.D. Fredlund, (1998). The Meaning and
Relevance of Residual State to Unsaturated Soils. 51st Canadian Geotechnical
Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 4-7, 1998.
M.D. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, D.G. Fredlund, (1998). Estimation of Hydraulic
Properties of an Unsaturated Soil using a Knowledge-Based System. Second
International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT98, Beijing, China, August
27-30.
M.D. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, D.G. Fredlund, (1997). Estimation of Hydraulic
Properties of an Unsaturated Soil Using A Knowledge-Based System.
Proceedings of Characterization and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of
Unsaturated Porous Media, Riverside, California.
M.D. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, D.G. Fredlund, (1997). Indirect Procedures to
Determine Unsaturated Soil Property Functions. Proceedings of the 50th
Canadian Geotechnical Conference Golden Jubilee Conference, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
M.D. Fredlund, D.G. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (1997). Estimation of Unsaturated
Soil Properties Using A Knowledge-Based System. ASCE 4th Congress on
Computing in Civil Engineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
M.D. Fredlund, D.G. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (1997). Prediction of the Soil-Water
Characteristic Curve from Grain-Size Distribution and Volume-Mass Properties.
3rd Brazilian Symposium on Unsaturated Soils, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M.D. Fredlund, W.S. Sillers, D.G. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (1996). Design of a
Knowledge-Based System For Unsaturated Soil Properties. 3rd Canadian
Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Quebec.
D.G. Fredlund, A. Xing, M.D. Fredlund, S.L. Barbour, (1996). The Relationship of
the Unsaturated Soil Shear Strength Function to the Soil-Water Characteristic
Curve. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 40-448.
M.D Fredlund, W.S. Sillers, D.G. Fredlund, G.W. Wilson, (1996). Design of a
Knowledge-Based System for Unsaturated Soil Properties. 3rd Canadian
Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Quebec.
D.G. Fredlund, A. Xing, S. Huang, (1994). Predicting the Permeability Function for
unsaturated Soils using the Soil-Water Characteristic Curve. Canadian
Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 533-546.
D.G. Fredlund, A. Xing, (1994). Equations for the Soil-Water Characteristic Curve.
Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 521-532.
K. Georgiadis, (2003). Development, Implementation and Application of Partially
Saturated Soil Models in Finite Element Analysis. PhD Thesis, Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine.
Philip Graham Clark Smith, (2003). Numerical Analysis of Infiltration into partially
Saturated Soil Slopes. PhD Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of
London.
Julio Esteban Colmenares Montanez, (2002). Suction and Volume Changes of
compacted Sand-Bentonite Mixtures. PhD Thesis, University of London, Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Faculty of Engineering.
Radhey Shyam Sharma, (1998). Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Highly
Expansive Clays. PhD Thesis, Keble College, University of Oxford.
R.I. Borja, (2006). On the Mechanical Energy and Effective Stress in Saturated
and Unsaturated Porous Continua. International Journal of Solids and Structures
43 (2006) 1764-1786, Elsevier Ltd.
M. Kohlmeier, G. Ziefle and W. Zielke, (2004). Coupling of Thermo-Hydro-
Mechanical Processes for the Simulation of partially Saturated Systems.
Proceedings of Fifth Workshop "Porous Media", Blaubeuren.
University of Athens, Department of Civil Engineering, and available in .pdf
format in Greek language only. Taken from this site.
Lars Ammann, (2003). Cation exchange and adsorption on clays and clay
minerals. PhD Thesis of the faculty of mathematics and natural sciences,
Christian - Albrechts University Kiel.
Bearing Capacity of Soils , Engineering Design Manual (EM 1110-1-1905),
available by the US Army Corps of Engineers (1992).
DM 7.01 Soil Mechanics The well-known Design Manual of the Department of the
Navy is available in pdf format in this site of the Navy.
DM 7.02 Foundations and Earth Structures. The well-known Design Manual of
the Department of the Navy is available in pdf format in this site of the Navy.
J. Colmenares Montañez (2002) - "Suction and volume changes of compacted
sand-bentonite mixtures". PhD thesis, Imperial College, University of London.
P. Smith (2003) - "Numerical analysis of infiltration into partially saturated soil
slopes". PhD Thesis. University of London.
R. Rolo (2003) - "The anisotropic stress-strain-strength behaviour of brittle
sediments". PhD thesis, University of London.
A.N.Schofield, (2000). Behaviour of a Soil Paste Continuum. Technical Report:
CUED/D-GEOTECHNICAL /TR311.
A. Grammatikopoulou (2004) - "Development, implementation and application of
kinematic hardening models for overconsolidated clays". University of London.
A. Jotisankasa (2005) - "Collapse behaviour of a compacted silty clay". PhD
Thesis. University of London.
A. Gasparre (2005) - "Advanced laboratory characterisation of London Clay".
PhD Thesis. University of London.
Dr. James K. Mitchell, (1995). The Role of Soil Mechanics in Environmental
Geotechnics. The Third Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas.
K. Ventouras (2005) - "Engineering Behaviour of Thanet Sand". PhD Thesis.
University of London.
M.D. Bolton, (1986). The Strength and dilatancy of sands + Discussion Paper.
Geotechnique 36, No. 1, 65-78.
S. Nishimura (2005) - "Laboratory study on anisotropy of natural London Clay".
PhD Thesis. University of London.
R. Monroy (2006) - "The influence of load and suction changes on the volumetric
behaviour of compacted London Clay". PhD Thesis. University of London.
Arnold Verruijt (2001). Soil Mechanics in pdf format. Delft University of
Technology.
A.N.Schofield, (2001). Re-Appraisal of Terzaghi's Soil Mechanics. A draft of an
invited Special Lecture at the International Society of Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering Conference in Istabul.
Engineer Manual. (EM 1110-1904). Engineering and Design Settlement Analysis.
Available by the US Army Corps of Engineers (1990), Washington.
Earth Manual 3rd Edition. U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of reclamation
(1998), Denver.
P.J. Sabatini, R.C. Bachus, P.W. Mayne, J.A. Schneider, T.E. Zettler, FHWA & U.S
Department of Transportation (2002). Geotechnical Engineering Circular No.5,
Evaluation of Soil and Rock Properties. Technical Manual.
A.N. Schofield and C.P. Wroth. Critical State Soil Mechanics. University of
Cambridge.
G.R. McDowell & M.D. Bolton, (2001). Micro Mechanics of Elastic Soil. Soils &
Foundations, VOL.41, nO.6, 147-152, Japanese Geotechnical Society.
Dr. Ralph B. Peck, (1993). The coming of Age of Soil Mechanics: 1920 - 1970. The
1st Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University, College Station.
Dr. G. Geoffrey Meyerhof, (1994). Evolution of Safety Factors & Geotechnical Limit
State Design. The 2nd Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture. Texas A&M University,
College Station.
Naresh C. Samtani, PE, PhD & Edward A. Nowatzki, PE, PhD, (2006). Soils and
Foundations Reference Manual: Document Info. National Highway Institute (NHI)
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Amy B. Cerato and Alan J. Lutenegger, (2006). Shrinkage of Clays. Proceedings
of the 4th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Phoenix.
Kevin J. Gaspard, P.E. (2002). Rapid drying Soils with Microwave ovens.
Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Louisiana Department of
Transportation and Development.
Engineer Manual (EM 1110-2-1909), 1970. Engineering and Design. Calibration
of Laboratory Soils Testing Equipment. Department of the Army. US Army Corps
of Engineers, Washington D.C.
A. Rahnenma, G. Habibagahi and A. Ghahramani, (2003). A new simple Shear
Apparatus for Testing unsaturated Soils. Iranian Journal of Science and
Technology, Transaction B, Vol.27, No. B1. Shiraz University. Iran.
Engineering Manual (EM 1110-1-1906), 1996. Engineering and Design. Soil
Sampling. Department of the Army. US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C.
A.N. Schofield and C.P. Wroth, (1968). Critical State Soil Mechanics. McGraw-Hill,
London.
Engineer Manual (EM 1110-2-1906), 1970. Engineering and Design. Laboratory
Soils Testing. Department of the Army. US Army Corps of Engineers, Office of the
Chief of Engineers. Washington D.C.
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