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Lessons From The Lives of Two Dams (Victor de Mello Lecture)

May 01, 2014 James K. Mitchell

Many embankment dams completed during the first six decades of the 20th century have been found deficient relative their ability to resist currently anticipated levels of seismic shaking and probable maximum flood. In this Fourth Victor de Mello Lecture, two recent case histories are described. One is a hydraulic fill structure completed in 1920 that is...

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Working Hypothesis, Special Laboratory Tests, Working Tools, Analysis of the Monitoring of a Pilot Embankment Built on Soft Clay in Santos with Wick Drains and its Application to the Final Design

December 15, 2011 J.P.P. Rémy I.S.M. Martins P.E.L. Santa Maria V.N. Aguiar M.E.S. Andrade

Routine in-situ and laboratory investigations carried out for the basic design failed to provide reliable values for compressibility and consolidation parameters of soft clay layers at the site of a terminal to be built in Santos. A pilot embankment was designed and built divided in three equal areas, two with wick drains in a square mesh at spacings of...

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Lessons From The Lives of Two Dams (Victor de Mello Lecture)

Working Hypothesis, Special Laboratory Tests, Working Tools, Analysis of the Monitoring of a Pilot Embankment Built on Soft Clay in Santos with Wick Drains and its Application to the Final Design

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