Laboratory Report LR 309 Settlement behind bridge abutments: performance of a silty clay fill in an approach embankment on the M4 motorway
Publication Year
1970
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Details an investigation in which the performance of a silty clay fill, placed to complete the approach embankment to one of the abutments of a bridge, was compared directly with the performance of a sandy gravel filling, at the other abutment.
Author
McLaren, D.
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