Proceedings of the eleventh International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, San Francisco, 12-16 August 1985.
By: editor, Publications Committee of XI ICSMFE.
Publisher: A.A. Balkema
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Rotterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Soil mechanics -- History -- Congresses.; Foundations -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Golden jubilee volume.
Notes: "Lectures on the history and development of geotechnical engineering."-- P. [1].

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: class: section
title: The history of geotechnical engineering up until 1700 / Jean Kérisel; class: section
title: A history of soil properties, 1717-1927 / A.W. Skempton; class: section
title: The last sixty years / Ralph B. Peck; class: section
title: The first Terzaghi oration : Amuay landslides / T. William Lambe.