TY - BOOK AU - AFFENDY MURTHY LOWE ABDULLAH. TI - A MONOGRAPH OF ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF COASTAL SUB-SOILS IN THE MALAYSIAN PENINSULA PY - 1984/// CY - BANGKOK: ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KW - COASTAL N1 - 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 ER -