Soft Ground Engineering in Coastal Areas

Soft Ground Engineering in Coastal Areas

Author: Takashi Tsuchida

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9789058096135

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This volume contains the papers contributed to the Nakase Memorial Symposium with the theme: Soft Ground Engineering in Coastal Areas, held in Yokusuka, Japan in November 2002. The meeting was organized as a tribute to Professor Ako Nakase, and was attended by 125 participants including his Japanese colleagues and friends from overseas. The topics covered included: fundamental Characteristics of Clay Soils; Estimation of consolidation settlement in large-scale reclamation; Soil improvement methods in coastal areas; Reuse of dredged soils and behaviour of coastal structures under earthquake; and Evaluation for the stability of coastal structures.