Field Instrumentation in Geotechnical Engineering

ContentsPart 1: Papers The Measurement of Spatial Deformations By Geodetic Methods The Development and Use of Trial Embankments The Measurement of In-Situ Stress and Strain in Soils In-Situ Measurements of Earth Pressure and Anchor Forces For A Diaphragm Retaining Wall The Measurement of Ground Displacement Around Deep Excavations Techniques and Equipment Using The Surveyor's Level For Accurate Measurement of Building Movement A Practical Method For Field Control of Loading Horizontal Inclinometers For The Measurement of Vertical Displacement In The Soil Around Experimental Foundations Performance Characteristics of the Slope Indicator Series 200-B Inclinometer Observations and Analysis of A Flow Slide In Sand Fill 1 Field Loading Tests At Canvey Island Principles and Performance of Two Inclinometers For Measuring Horizontal Ground Movements Foundation Instrumentation For the National Westminster Bank Tower Instruments Developed By the TRRL For Studying the Behavior of Earthworks Field Measurements of Earth Pressures Against Motorway Retaining Walls and Bridge Abutments Field Instrumentation Within A Civil Engineering Contract Experiences With Instrumentation For Embankment Dam Performance The Detection of Leakage Through The Core of An Existing Dam Instrumentation of Some Embankment Dams In Southern Africa The M5 Motorway Embankments on Soft Ground In Somerset 262 Performance of The Instrumentation Used To Monitor The M5 Motorway Embankments Built On Soft Ground Between Edithmead and Huntworth Instrumentation of Flood Defense Banks Along The River Thames Measurement of Displacements in the Ground Below Loaded Plates In Deep Boreholes Environmental Factors Affecting the Interpretation of Ground Movement Castlandhill Piezometers Measuring Movements of Embankment Dams An Inclinometer For Measuring the Deformation of Buried Structures with Reference to Multi Tied Diaphragm Walls Rock Investigations For Camlough Underground Power Station Experience in Using Electrical Tiltmeters The Measurement and Interpretation of Ground Vibrations The Measurement of Pore Pressures With Piezometers Some New Techniques in Field Instrumentation Applied to A Bored Pile Trial in Gault Clay Measurement of Ground Strain and Tilt Arising From Mining Subsidence Instrumentation For The King's Lynn Southern Bypass The Behavior of Stress Measuring Devices in Rocks of Various Properties Instrumentation of Vibroflotation Foundation Some Organization and Benefit Aspects of InstrumentationPart 2: Discussion Opening Address Session I. Principles of Measurement Session 2. Equipment Discussion. Principles of Measurement Discussion. Equipment Session 3. Application Session 4. Interpretation Discussion. Application Discussion. Interpretation Joint Concluding Remarks By Dr P. R. Vaughan and Dr J. B. Burland Closing Address By Dr L. F. Cooling Key Word and Instrument Index Guarantors and Exhibitors