AFFENDY MURTHY LOWE ABDULLAH.
A MONOGRAPH OF ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF COASTAL SUB-SOILS IN THE MALAYSIAN PENINSULA
- BANGKOK: ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1984
- 141P; MAPS
Thesis
1. Introduction. 2. Literature review. A: Previous engineering studies. B: Basic properties. (1) Texture. (2) Clay minerals. (3) Organic content. (4) Water content. (5) Bulk density and specific gravity. (6) Salt concentration in porewater. (7) Plastic characteristics. a- General. b- Plasticity chart. c- Liquidity indexes. d- Activity. (8) Shear strength characteristics. a- General. b- Total shear strength parameters. c- Shear strength increase parameters. (9) Sensitivity. (10) Effective stresses strength. (11) Compressibility characteristic. a- Apparent preconsolidation effect. b- Compression index and void ratio. (12) Coefficient of consolidation and volume compressibility.3.Cenozoic geology of peninsular Malaysia. A: Introduction. B: Sedimentation. C: Cenozoic deposits. (1) Introduction. (2) Tertiary. a- Onshore areas. b- Offshore areas. (3) Quarternary. a- Stratigraphy. b- Offshore. c- Sea levels fluctuations. d- Sea level changes in Pleistocene. e- General description and distribution of quaternary deposits. 4. Discussion on soil engineering information. A: General. B: Subsoil profiles. (1) West Coast. a- Perlis-Kedah profiles. b- Penang Bridge site and Changkat Jering toll expressway project. c- Sg.Kerian tidal barrage. d- Pengkalan Merin Kg.Acheh. e- Telok Intan-Bagan Datoh road. f- Port Klang area. g- Western Johore agricultural development projects area. (2) East coast. a- Kuantan area. b- Kuantan port area. c-Chukai flood mitigation area. d- Kemasin-Semarak project area. (3) Water table and height of plains. (4) Texture. (5) Organic content. (6) Salt concentration and sensitivity. (7) Moisture content. (8) Plasticity characteristic. (9) Shear strength. (10) Effective stress shear strength. (11) Compressibility characteristic. (12) Bulk density and specific gravity. 5. Conclusions.
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COASTAL.