E-raamat: Developments in Geotechnical Aspects of Embankments, Excavations and Buried Structures: Proceedings of the symposium held in 1988 and 1990 at Bangkok on underground excavations in soils and rocks.

Preface
1. Laboratory and field tests An introduction to centrifuge
model testing; Centrifugal modeling of soil-structure interaction;
Centrifugal model tests - Recent projects; Influence of a non-random fabric
on macroscopic properties of geomaterials; CPT correlations for sands from
calibration chambers; Testing of very soft clay; Full scale laboratory and
field test for development of gravel drains system; X-ray diffraction of the
five component clay shales; Correlation of sampling effect in Hong Kong;
Mechanics of wave pulse in rock fragmentation; Filter design for tropical
residual soils; Strength and displacements of model infilled rock joints;
Large scale model loading tests performed in a pneumatic caisson; Performance
and monitoring of a deep, large diameter shaft; Pile driving measurements for
assessment of hammer performance and pile adequacy; Pile diagnostics by FPDS;
The study of the swelling properties of the altered granite by means of large
scale field tests for underground excavations of the largest pumped storage
power station in China
2. Embankments, excavations, slopes, and earth
retaining structures; Excavation of submarine ground in the worlds largest
pneumatic caisson; Full-scale slope failure at Selbome, UK; Study on the
mechanisms of slope failure due to heavy rainfall by using laboratory and
numerical models; Time-dependent deformation of anchored excavation in soft
clay; Evaluation of earth pressure on retaining walls; Groundwater recharge
to prevent subsidence of adjacent structure in a subway excavation; Model
tests of slope failure due to seepage water; Model test on sheet-pile
countermeasures for clay foundation under embankment
3. Tunnels and buried
structures Behavior and simulation of sandy ground tunnels; Earth pressure
acting on buried pipes; Large pipes buried in soft soil - Prefabricated pipes
in river Nile sediments; Analyses of the longitudinal bending strain of
pipelines subjected to vehicle loads; TBM tunneling and supports in ravelling
and squeezing rock; Behavior of a buried flexible steel pipe under
groundwater level; Shotcrete mix design, process of shotcreting for tunnel
support (Narmada Power House Tunnel); Geotechnical experiences from
construction of large diameter underground water pipe in soft Bangkok clay
4.
Soil and rock improvements; Consolidation of clayey soils using combined
dewatering method; Some examples of field tests for soil improvement methods
in Japan; Soil improvement for tank foundation on sand deposit; Behavior of
the improved ground by the Deep Mixing Method under embankment loading;
Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) and other ground improvement techniques
for infrastructure constructions on soft and subsiding ground; Interaction of
steel geogrids and low-quality, cohesive-frictional backfill and behavior of
mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall on soft ground; A computational
method for the design of passive bolts
5. Site investigation and selected
topics Geotechnical aspects of the construction of the Singapore MRT; The
geotechnical aspects of Malaysias North-South Expressway; Pile-tip cap
driving method for precast concrete pile; Stochastic three dimensional joint
geometry modelling including a verification to an area in Stripa Mine,
Sweden; Geotechnical characteristics of soft soils in Indonesia; Field and
laboratory tests of tropical residual soils as materials for dam; Preliminary
report on the sand liquefaction induced by the 16 July earthquake in Dagupan
City (Pangasinan Province, Philippines) Author Index

A.S. Balasubramaniam, Y. Honjo, D.T. Bergado, N.Phien-Wej, B. Indraratna, Prinya Nutalya all from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.