Reappraising historical coincidences that radically misled slope destabilization analyses of homogeneous earth dams
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Published:2004
V.F.B. de Mello, E.S. Larocca, R. Quintanilha, de Meireles E. B., 2004. "Reappraising historical coincidences that radically misled slope destabilization analyses of homogeneous earth dams", Advances in geotechnical engineering: The Skempton conference: Proceedings of a three day conference on advances in geotechnical engineering, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, on 29–31 March 2004
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Introduction
Soft and hard loads, disturbing or restoring?
Early incorporation of concerns about construction-period compressibility pore pressures. The unperceived injection of a “corrupting gene” in the form of the uncritically applied
THE BOUNDARY NEUTRAL simplification is demonstrated as fundamentally wrong in principle
Designing for reservoir drawdowns
Concluding comments and secondary effects
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