Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Volume 131, Number 9 September 2005 - Virginia : American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005 - p.

September 2005

TECHNICAL PAPERS Bender Elements: Performance and Signal Interpretation / Jong-Sub Lee and J. Carlos Santamarina. Comparison of Residual Shear Strengths from Back Analysis and Ring Shear Tests on Undisturbed and Remolded Specimens / Binod Tiwari, Thomas L. Brandon, Hideaki Marui and Gyanu Ratna Tuladhar. Geologic Controls of Subdivision Damage near Denver, Colorado / David C. Noe. Comparison of Interface Shear Strength of Soil Nails Measured by Both Direct Shear Box Tests and Pullout TEsts / Lok-Man Chu And Jian-Hua Yin. Seismic Displacements of Soil Retaining Walls Situated on Slope / Ching-Chuan Huang. Polk County Expressway: A Laboratory, Numerical and Field Study of Consolidation / Zafar Ahmed, Michael McVay, David Horhota and Robert Ho. Reliability Evaluation of Cross-Hole Sonic Logging for Bored Pile Integrity / D.Q.Li, L.M.Zhang and W.H. Tang. A New Method for the Correlation of Residual Shear Strength of the Soil with Mineralogical Composition / Binod Tiwari and Hideaki Marui. Crack Response to Long-Term Environmental and Blast Vibration Effects / Charles H. Dowding and Laureen M. McKenna. Laboratory Characterization of Steeply Dipping Expansive Bedrock in the Rocky Mountain Front Range / William J. Likos, Ning Lu and Kevin J. Sharkey. TECHNICAL NOTES Simulation of Full-Scale Cyclic Lateral Load Tests on Piles / Tara C.Hutchinson, Y.H.Chai and Ross W. Boulanger. Comparison of Field and Laboratory Soil-Water Characteristic Curves / A.G.Li, L.G. Tham, Z.Q. Yue, C.F.Lee and K.T. Law. DISCUSSIONS AND CLOSURES Discussion of "New Compression Index Equation" / J.H. Park and T. Koumoto, Frank Atuahene. Closure by J.H. Park and T. Koumoto. Discussion of "Unsaturated Constitutive Surfaces from Pressuremeter Tests" / Fernando Schnaid, Luiz Artur Kratz de Oliveira and Wai Ying Gehling, Domenico Gallipoli. Discussion / Ramesh C.Gupta. Closure / Fernando Schnaid, Luis Artuz Kratz de Oliveira and Wai Ying Yuk Gehling. ERRATA Errata for "Membrane Behavior of Model Soil-Bentonite Backfills" / Sang-Sik Yeo, Charles D.Shackelford and Jeffrey C.Evans


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