Proceedings of Bengt B. Broms Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering: Singapore 13-15 December 1995

by Bengt B. Broms Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering (1995 Singapore); Zhao, J.; Goh, A.; Broms, Bengt Baltzar; Ntu-Pwd Geotechnical Research Centre; Nanyang Technological University

• ISBN13: 9789810225889
• ISBN10: 9810225881
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Organisation
Acknowledgments
Preface
Biography of Bengt B. Broms
The Republic Plaza in Singapore - foundation design	p. 3
Restraint of an active landslide by bored piles	p. 27
Short and long term behaviour of non-treated and lime- or cement-stablized fly ash	p. 39
Soil improvement works in major reclamation projects	p. 57
Geotechnical system reliability and decisions	p. 79
Capacities of drilled shafts in sand subjected to overturning and torsion	p. 97
Prediction of unsaturated soil functions using the soil-water characteristic curve	p. 113
Earth pressure in moving soil mass	p. 135
Practical geotechnical application of back-propagation neural networks	p. 149
Ultimate resistance of laterally loaded piles	p. 165
Deep stabilization of soft soils with lime-cement columns	p. 173
Retaining walls reinforced with geosynthetics: from Broms (1977, 1978) to the present	p. 181
The displacement field due to deep excavation in soft ground	p. 197
Industrial solid waste management in geotechnics	p. 207
A thirty year perspective of Broms' lateral loading models, as applied to drilled shafts	p. 225
An environmentally friendly prefabricated vertical drain for soil improvement	p. 243
The active design concept applied to soil compaction	p. 263
Wave-offshore pipelines-seabed interation	p. 279
Ten year history of EPS method in Japan and its future challenges	p. 293
Soft ground tunnelling for Singapore and Taipei MRT systems	p. 313
Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design	p. 333
A glimpse at electrokinetic soil improvement	p. 363
Screw pile installation parameters and the overall pile behaviour	p. 385
Monitoring drive behaviour of PC-piles	p. 413
Design of diaphragm walls for excavations in stiff day	p. 429
Downdrag on single piles	p. 449
Grain morphology, crushing and static cone penetration testing of natural sands	p. 469
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