Ground improvement: the interaction of engineering science and experience-based technology* Available to Purchase

An increasing proportion of building development takes place on poor ground, which presents the geotechnical engineer with the challenge of providing satisfactory foundation performance at low cost. Ground behaviour can be modified by ground treatment so that ground properties are improved and heterogeneity is reduced. Ground treatment has developed largely as an experience-based technology, whereas the scientific aspects of ground engineering have been the principal concern of the Géotechnique journal. In a keynote lecture for a Géotechnique Symposium in Print on the subject of ground and soil improvement, it is pertinent to ask how well the engineering science of soil...