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The Bengt B Broms Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering was organised to pay tribute to Professor Broms for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of geotechnical engineering. A number of eminent geotechnical engineers and researchers were invited to contribute to this Symposium. This volume is a compilation of 27 invited papers presented at the Symposium, covering the various aspects of geotechnical engineering, with the main focus on pile foundations, excavation and retaining structure, and soil improvement.

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Author:   Kai Sin Wong (Ntu, Spore) ,  Jian Zhao (Ntu, Spore) ,  Anthony Goh (Ntu, Spore)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789810225889

ISBN 10:   9810225881
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   01 December 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The Republic Plaza in Singapore - foundation design, B.B. Broms and H.P. Lai; restraint on an active landslide by bored piles, A.G. Anagnostopoulos and B.R. Papadopoulos; short and long term behaviour of non-treated and lime or cement-stabilized fly ash, H. Brand; capacities of drilled shafts in sand subjected to overturning and torsion, J.M. Duncan and G.M. Filz; prediction of unsaturated soil functions using the soil-water characteristic curve, D.G. Fredlund; earth pressure in moving soil mass, M. Fukuoka; deep stabilization of soft soils with lime-cement columns, J. Hartlen and G. Holm; retaining walls reinforced with geosynthetics - from Broms (1977, 1978) to the present, R.D. Holtz; the active design concept applied to soil compaction, K.R. Massarsch and E. Westerberg; wave-offshore pipelines-seabed interaction, B. Mazurkiewicz and W. Magda; and other papers.

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