Engineered fills : proceedings of the conference Engineered fills '93, held on 15-17 September 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne / edited by B.G. Clarke, C.J.F.P. Jones and A.I.B. Moffat.

Conference sponsored by the British Geotechnical Society and other bodies.

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Highway embankments—their design, construction and performance -- Specification and control of earthworks -- Engineered fills: space, time and water -- A state boundary for unsaturated soil -- A new model for predicting the behaviour of partially saturated fills -- Hydro-mechanical behaviour of partially saturated low porosity clays -- Wet fills: evaporative dewatering techniqes applied to earthworks construction -- Forecasting the long-term acceptability potential of soils for earthworking -- The swelling behaviour of compacted clayey backfill -- Expansive behaviour of unsaturated fine-grained soils in compacted canal embankments -- Dynamic earth pressure and dynamic water pressure of fills behind quay walls -- The deformation behaviour of partially saturated granular fill at low stress levels -- A study of the stress-strain behaviour of a compacted soil from Nova Avanhandava Dam -- Compaction characteristics of some arid swelling soils -- The behaviour of a laterite fill subjected to drying and wetting, including the effects of crack jacking -- Compactive measure of cohesionless soils -- Back-analysis of a pilot scale shear test on coarse granular fill -- Stabilisation of embankment clay fills using lime piles -- Some observations on the behaviour of an engineered contaminated cohesive fill -- Description, classification and specification of chalk for use in earthworks -- Specifications for and performance of compacted opencast backfills -- Polystyrene as an ultra-lightweight engineered fill -- Relationship testing for acceptability assessment of cohesive soils -- The effect of stone content on the determination of acceptability for earthworking -- Behaviour of compacted earth fill embankments, constructed during winter and summer conditions -- Importance of air void for compacted loam soils -- Volcanic ash treated with foam and cement for lightweight filling materials -- Engineered fills on dolomitic terrain in South Africa -- A classification of pulverised fuel ash as an engineered fill -- Recent experience with soft rockfill in dam engineering -- Some aspects of the use of skip load tests to determine the settlement behaviour of fills -- Initial assessment of new rapid ground compactor -- Performance of an engineered fill at Lounge opencast coal site -- Settlement of opencast coal mining backfill at Horsley 1973-1992 -- Engineered fill for Sheffield and Rotherham City Airport -- Compaction, monitoring and performance of engineered fill at the Dixon opencast site, Chesterfield, UK -- Observed fill pressures on a concrete culvert in a steep-sided valley -- Temporary works bund design and construction for the Tees Barrage -- Engineering landfill by dynamic compaction to support highways and buildings -- Investigation and reconstruction of a failed crib retaining wall - Design and construction of spoil mounds -- The ability of in situ testing to assess ground treatment -- Embankment construction and monitoring on soft alluvium at five sites near Dartford.

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