Soft Ground Engineering in Coastal Areas: Proceedings of the Nakase Memorial Symposium, Yokosuka, Japan, 28-29 November 2002 [Hardcover]

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.

Containing the major contributed papers to the Nakase Memorial Symposium, this volume includes two keynote lectures and forty three peer-reviewed papers, as well the biography and selected papers of the respected Professor Akio Nakase.Takashi Tsuchida, Yoichi Watabe, Minsoo Kang, Osamu Kusakabe, Masaaki TerashiPreface, Biography of the late Professor Akio Nakase (19292000), Selected papers of Prof. Akio Nakase, The ? u = 0 analysis of stability and unconfined compression strength, Kansai International Airport-construction of man-made island, Keynote addresses, The assessment of uncertainty in stability problems, The 1964 Niigata earthquake in retrospect, Fundamental characteristics of clayey soils, Compression behaviour of structurally complex marine clays, Effect of drying and preparation method on microscopic analysis on Pleistocene clays using mercury intrusion porosimetry, Estimation of the strain rate effect influenced to the consolidation characteristic of Osaka Bay Pleistocene clay, Engineering properties of intermediate soil consisting with grain size distribution, What does the qu mean?, Evaluation of in-situ lateral earth pressure at rest for marine clay by means of triaxial cell, Estimation of consolidation settlement in the large-scale reclamation, Some problems on settlement and stabilization lóx