Quality assessment of organic geotechnical samples

For certain geotechnical structures, such as dikes and levees, the design quality is heavily reliant on the sampling quality. In addition, the extent of consequences on geotechnical design of using parameters from samples with a certain degree of disturbance in laboratory tests is unclear. While the available literature has been mainly focussed...

Review and validation of settlement prediction methods for organic soft soils, on the basis of three case studies from the Netherlands

Organic soft soils pose technical challenges in construction industry due to their extraordinary compressibility and deformability, which is an issue of particular relevance in the densely populated Netherlands, of which more than half of the land surface is covered by such soft soils. Uncertainty and variability in settlement predictions for...

Effects of fines on mechanical behaviour of sandy soils

In dredging works, fines are encountered in different ways. Fines can be produced during the cutting of rocks or can be found in natural deposited sand. The presence of fines in sand soil is generally recognized as problem in geotechnical engineering. It is believed that fines in a sand increases soil compressibility and tendency to creep. Also...

Evaluation of creep models for soft soils (under axially symmetric conditions)

Sample disturbance of a soft organic Dutch clay