FAILURES IN EARTHWORKS

Session 1: Earthwork failures and repairs. 1. Excavated slopes in fissured tills / A.Mc Gown. 2. Earthworks in Hong Kong - their failure and stabilization / A.J.Vail. 3. A57 snake pass, remedial work to slip near Alport bridge / A.D.Leadbeater. 4. Slope failures in road cuttings through Coal measures rocks / S.H.Rogers. Session 2: Earthwork failures and repairs. 5. Slope stability problems in ageing highway earthworks / A.W.Parsons. 6. Shallow slips in highway embankments constructed of overconsolidated clay/ J.R.Greenwood.7. Performance of embankments and cuttings in Gault Caly in Kent / C.Garrett. Session 3: Earthworks failures and repairs. 8. Cracking of a PFA embankments over soft alluvium / N.R.Arber. 9. Failure of a large highway cutting remedial works / G.Pilot. 10. Water and frost- stability risks for embankments of fine-grained soils / A.Ekstrom. 11. The use of stress measurements as an early warning methods of failures in compacted embankments / H.Ostlid. Session 4: Earthworks failures and repairs. 12. The failure of embankment dams in the United Kingdom / J.A.Charles. 13. Carsington dam / A.W.Skempton . Session 5: Formation failures. 14. Keuper Marl as a road foundations- Predicting its strength / A.J.Turner. 15. Earthworks formation failures/N.Mc Farland. Session 6: Rocks slopes. 16. Major gabion wall failures/ S.Thorburn. 17. The stability of excavated slopes exposing rock / G.D.Matheson. 18. Quarry landslip- a design aid in highway earthwork / W.A Wallace. 19. Kilgetty bypass: Problems related to trust faulting / A.D.Fletcher. Session 7: Serviceability failures. 20. Buried services associated with transport systems including mining subsidence / N.Addy. 21. A retaining wall failure induced by compaction/ T.S.Ingold. 22. Failure of a large diameter pipe/ C.J.F.P.Jones.

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