Embankment-dam engineering
Subtitle: Casagrande volume
By: editors, Ronald C. Hirschfeld, Steve J. Poulos ; including papers by George E. Bertram ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hirschfeld, Ronald C.; Poulos, Steve J.; Bertram, George E.; Casagrande, Arthur, 1902-
Publisher: Krieger Pub. Co.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Malabar, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Casagrande, Arthur, 1902-; Earth dams.
Notes: "Publications and research reports by Arthur Casagrande": p. 433-439.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Papers in honor of Arthur Casagrande.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Wiley, 1973.
Table of contents: title: Field tests for compacted rockfill / George E. Bertram; title: Seepage control in earth dams / Harry R. Cedergren; title: Slope stability computations / Nilmar Janbu; title: Flow through rockfill / Thomas M. Leps; title: Mechanical properties of rockfill / Raúl J. Marsal; title: Influence of nontechnical factors on the quality of embankment dams / Ralph B. Peck; title: Movements of articulated conduits under earth dams on compressible foundations / Philip C. Rutledge, James P. Gould; title: Stability of earth and rockfill dams during earthquakes / H. Bolton Seed; title: Embankment dam cracking / James L. Sherard; title: Preparation of rock foundations for embankment dams / William F. Swiger; title: Deformation of earth and rockfill dams / Stanley D. Wilson.