Proceedings of Workshop on Expansive Clays and Shales in Highway Design and Construction,Federal Highway Administration,Held in New Albany Hotel,Denver,Colorado on December 13-15, 1972. Volume 1,

摘要

These proceedings are comprised of technical papers,reports,remarks and discussions presented at the Workshop on 'Expansive Clays and Shales in Highway Design and Construction,'in Denver,Colorado. The proceedings cover the state of the art on highway design and construction on expansive clays and shales. Volume 1contains papers,reports and discussions regarding: (1) fundamental mechanisms involved in expansion of clays and clay shales,including the geologic origin and distribution of expansive clays; (2) laboratory and field testing of expansive clays,and (3) methods for prediction of heave or distress in engineering structures founded on or in expansive clay or shale.