TY - BOOK ID - 88203685 TI - Embankments on organic soils AU - HartleĢn, Jan. AU - Wolski, Wojciech. PY - 1996 VL - 80 SN - 9780080530819 0080530818 9780444882738 0444882731 9786611047634 1281047635 PB - Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Earth Sciences KW - General and Others KW - Embankments. KW - Histosols. KW - Soil mechanics KW - Soil mechanics. KW - Soil engineering KW - Soils KW - Soils (Engineering) KW - Geotechnical engineering KW - Mechanics KW - Foundations KW - Soil physics KW - Folisols KW - Organic soils KW - Earthwork KW - Fills (Earthwork) KW - Hydraulic structures KW - Slopes (Soil mechanics) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:88203685 AB - More and more civil engineering constructions are being built on soft soils. As areas with better foundations are used up the necessity to be able to build structures on soft soils increases. The most troublesome of soft soils are organic soils due mainly to their high compressibility (much higher than in mineral soils), and also their very low shear strength. The large diversity of organic soils with respect to their origin as well as their properties make classification, testing, and engineering prediction of behaviour, very difficult. For this reason, engineers try, in general, to avoid c ER -