Selected Papers on Geotechnical Engineering by P R Vaughan FREng

This book brings together twenty of the most important papers by the late Professor Peter Rolfe Vaughan on geotechnical engineering. Selected by Peter's closest colleagues at Imperial College and the Geotechnical Consulting Group, these papers are reproduced along with the obituary published in Géotechnique, a full listing of his bibliography, some photographs and personal reflections by David Hight, David Potts, Nebojša Kova%u010Devi%u0107 and Finlay Jardine on working with Peter.

The papers were chosen to illustrate Peter's academic work and his considerable impact on civil engineering practice. Many of the papers were awarded distinguished prizes and some are drawn from sources that are now hard to access. The volume will be valued by researchers, practitioners and all those who studied or worked with Peter.

Preface

Chapter 1 : A Note on Sealing Piezometers in Boreholes
Chapter 2 : Pore Pressure Changes and The Delayed Failure of Cutting Slopes in Over-Consolidated Clays
Chapter 3 : The Design, Construction and Performance of Cow Green Embankment Dam
Chapter 4 : Factors Controlling The Stability of Clay Fills in Britain
Chapter 5 : Weathering, Structure and In-Situ Stress in Residual Soils
Chapter 6 : Empingham Dam : Design, Construction and Performance
Chapter 7 : Finite Element Analysis of Progressive Failure of Carsington Embankment
Chapter 8 : The General and Congruent Effects of Structure in Natural Soils and Weak Rocks
Chapter 9 : The Failure of Carsington Dam Assumption, Prediction and Reality in Geotechnical Engineering
Chapter 10 : Analysis of Progressive Failure and Cracking in Old British Dams
Chapter 11 : Delayed Collapse of Cut Slopes in Stiff Clay
Chapter 12 : Clay Interface Shear Resistance
Chapter 13 : Undrained Behaviour of Brecciated Upper Lias Clay at Empingham Dam
Chapter 14 : Cracking and Erosion of The Rolled Clay Core of Balderhead Dam and The Measures Adopted for Its Repair
Chapter 15 : The Deformations of The Empingham Valley Slope
Chapter 16 : Design of Filters for Clay Cores of Dams Indexing Engineering Properties of Residual Soils
Chapter 17 : Engineering Behaviour of Weak Rocks : Some Answers and Some Questions

Index