Series 21 - Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton


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PBN221 B K Ramiah, ‘Time effects on the consolidation properties of clays’, PhD thesis, Purdue University
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN221
Date range Jan 1959
Inventory Identifier SKEM00724 Box Number 69 Series 21
PBN222 Adolph George Attschaeffl, ‘Compressibility of artificially sedimented clays’, PhD thesis, Purdue University
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN222
Date range Aug 1960
Inventory Identifier SKEM00725 Box Number 69 Series 21
PBN223 Elmer Whitmore Brooker, ‘The influence of stress history on certain properties of remolded cohesive soils’, PhD thesis, University of Illinois, USA
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton

With copy of article by same author, ‘Strain energy and behaviour of overconsolidated soils’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol IV, no 3, pp 326-333

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN223
Date range 1964 - Sept 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00726 Box Number 69 Series 21
PBN224 Copy typescript of B T Boyce, ‘The importance of fissures and fissure spacing in over-consolidated clays’, report of MSc thesis, Imperial College
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN224
Date range July 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00727 Box Number 70 Series 21
PBN225 Copy typescript of B D’Elia, ‘A study of structures in the London clay at Wraysbury (Middlesex)’, report for MSc thesis, Imperial College
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN225
Date range July 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00728 Box Number 70 Series 21
PBN226 Alan George Weeks, ‘The stability of the Lower Greensand Escarpment in Kent’, PhD thesis, University of Surrey (in two volumes)
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN226
Date range Feb 1970
Inventory Identifier SKEM00729 Box Number * Series 21
PBN227 Peter Ellerton Russell, ‘John Frederic La Trobe–Bateman, FRS, water engineer (1810-1889)’, MSc thesis
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN227
Date range Jan 1980
Inventory Identifier SKEM00730 Box Number 70 Series 21
PBN228 C E Gibbs, ‘A study of load/settlement curves from model foundations and plate loading tests on granular soils’, MSc thesis, Imperial College
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN228
Date range 1983
Inventory Identifier SKEM00731 Box Number 70 Series 21
PBN229 Chris P Wynne, ‘A review of the current methods of Øu = O slope stability analysis and reappraisal of the classic stigberg quay failure in Gothenburg, 1916’, MSc thesis, Imperial College, Sept 1984; three letters, Mar
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN229
Date range Mar 1984 - Dec 1984
Inventory Identifier SKEM00732 Box Number 70 Series 21
PBN230 Robert Kirk Bowden, ‘Compression Behaviour and Shear Strength Characteristics of a Natural Silty Clay Sedimented in the Laboratory’, DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, sent to Professor Bursland (external examiner)
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN230
Date range 1988
Inventory Identifier SKEM00733 Box Number * Series 21
PBN231 Adrian F Richards, ‘Investigations of deep-sea sediment cores I. Sheer strength, bearing capacity, and consolidation’ – technical report, US Navy, Apr 1960; II. Mass physical properties
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN231
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00734 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN232 David Kirby, Individual society and architectural change - a preliminary examination using examples of early factory development, with letter to Skempton from author
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN232
Date range 1960 - 9 Mar 1961
Inventory Identifier SKEM00735 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN233 Typescript of David C Moore and Adrian F Richards, ‘Conversion of “relative shear strength” measurements by Arrhenius on East Pacific deep-sea cores to conventional units of shear strength’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton

With letter to Skempton from Richards, US Navy Electronics Laboratory, asking for advice on article

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN233
Date range 16 May 1961
Inventory Identifier SKEM00736 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN234 Ministry of Transport report on site investigation for proposed Hendon motorway
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN234
Date range May 1962
Inventory Identifier SKEM00737 Box Number * Series 21
PBN235 Carl B Crawford, ‘Cohesion in an undisturbed sensitive clay’, prepared for submission to Géotechnique, Ottawa
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN235
Date range Dec 1962
Inventory Identifier SKEM00738 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN236 Preprint of John H Schmertmann, ‘Generalizing and measuring the effective components of shear resistance’, Symposium on Laboratory shear testing of soils, Ottawa
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN236
Date range Sept 1963
Inventory Identifier SKEM00739 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN237 Offprint of T K Chaplin, ‘Resistance - penetration Curves In Sand For Various Model Piles, Discs And Vanes’, Proceedings of symposium on bearing capacity of piles, Roorkee, India, pp 153-163
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN237
Date range 1964
Inventory Identifier SKEM00740 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN238 Typescript of Takeo Mogami, ‘A statistical Approach to the Mechanics of Granular Materials’, Tokyo, sent to Skempton by author
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN238
Date range Mar 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00741 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN239 Michael Browne, ‘Arkwright, industry & architecture. A study of the effects of the early Industrial Revolution on Architecture, with particular reference to the buildings erected by Sir Richard Arkwright, the cotton industrialist’, thesis
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton

With letter to Skempton from The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN239
Date range 1963 - Feb 1966
Inventory Identifier SKEM00742 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN240 Typescript of J N Hutchinson, ‘The free degradation of London clay cliffs’, submitted to 1967 Oslo conference on Shear Strength Properties of Natural Soils & Rocks
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN240
Date range 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00743 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN241 Typescript of N R Morgenstern and J S Tchalenko, ‘Microscopic structures in kaolin subjected to direct shear’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN241
Date range Jan 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00744 Box Number 71 Series 21
PBN242 Typescript by N R Morgenstern, ‘Ultimate Behaviour of Rock Structures’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN242
Date range Apr 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00745 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN243 Typescript of A G Weeks, ‘Phenomena of engineering significance associated with some peri-glacial deposits in Kent’, Geological Society of London engineering group meeting at Cardiff
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN243
Date range Sept 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00746 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN244 Geological Society of London engineering group meeting at Cardiff - M E Barton, ‘Foundation engineering problems in the investigation of sites on glacial sediments’ (typescript)
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN244
Date range Sept 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00747 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN245 Typescript of Peter G Fookes and D G Parrish, ‘Observations on small scale structural discontinuities in the London clay and their relationship to regional geology’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN245
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00748 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN246 A Pellegrino, ‘Compressibilita e resistenza a rottura del tufo giallo napoletano’, IX Convegno di geotecnica, Genoa [in Italian]
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN246
Date range Oct 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00749 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN247 James K Mitchell, ‘Summary Statement on Structural and physico-chemical basis for the mechanical properties of clays’, 7th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Mexico
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN247
Date range Aug 1969
Inventory Identifier SKEM00750 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN248 Alan W Bishop, ‘The influence of progressive failure on the method of stability analysis’ (technical note)
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN248
Date range No date [post 1970]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00751 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN249 Typescript article by R J Chandler, ‘The inferior oolite escarpment near Rockingham, Northamptonshire’ (with loose insert)
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN249
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00752 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN250 M W Baldwin, ‘Soil mechanics as practised by the engineers of the early English canals’, MSc dissertation, University of London
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN250
Date range July 1971
Inventory Identifier SKEM00753 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN251 A Lyndon, ‘Interim report of centrifugal modelling of the Lodalen landslide’, with letter to Skempton from A N Schofield, UMIST
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN251
Date range Aug 1971 - 25 Oct 1971
Inventory Identifier SKEM00754 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN255 Typescript of discussion paper by F C Townsend & P A Gilbert, ‘A New Ring Shear Apparatus and its Application to the Measurement of Residual Strength’, A W Bishop et al, Géotechnique, vol 21, no 4, pp 273-328
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton

Title amended by Skempton to ‘Tests to Measure Residual Strength of some Clay Shales’

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN255
Date range 1971
Inventory Identifier SKEM00755 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN253 Copy of article by G Calabresi & G Manfredini, ‘Sheer strength characteristics of the jointed clays of S Barbara’ (no further details)
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN253
Date range No date [post 1971]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00756 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN254 Typescript of paper submitted to Nature - J N Hutchinson, ‘Periglacial solifluction - an approximate mechanism for clayey soils’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN254
Date range No date [post 1971]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00757 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN255 P R Vaughan & R J Chandler, M12 motorway South Woodford to Brentwood. Report on geotechnical features (for Dept of Environment) - to Brian Colquhoun & Partners, consulting engineers
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN255
Date range July 1972
Inventory Identifier SKEM00758 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN256 Photocopy of Terzaghi memorial lectures, Bogaziçi University, with covering letter
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN256
Date range 1973 - 5 May 1995
Inventory Identifier SKEM00759 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN257 Offprint of Norbert R Morgenstern, ‘Methods of slope stability analysis’, from Computer Applications in Foundation Engineering and Construction, Chicago Soil Mechanics Lectures, Illinois, USA, pp 44-68
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN257
Date range 1974
Inventory Identifier SKEM00760 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN258 Typescript of J B Burland and R J R Hancock, ‘Geotechnical aspects of the design for the underground car park at the Palace of Westminster, London’, submitted for publication in The Structural Engineer
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN258
Date range May 1976
Inventory Identifier SKEM00761 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN259 Typescript article on embankment dams sent by PRV [Vaughan?] – lecture in Madrid
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN259
Date range No date [post 1976]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00762 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN260 Typescript entitled ‘I.C.O.M.O.S.’ - about textile mills
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN260
Date range No date [post 1976]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00763 Box Number 72 Series 21
PBN261 Offprint of general report by J N Hutchinson, ‘Assessment of the effectiveness of corrective measures in relation to geological conditions and types of slope movements. Experience with corrective measures applied to slope movements’
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With translation into French of summary, Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology, no 16, Krefeld, Germany, pp 131-155

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN261
Date range 1977
Inventory Identifier SKEM00764 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN262 Offprint of article by Jim Rose, ‘River terraces and sea-level change’, Brighton Polytechnic Geographical Society Magazine, no 3, sent to Skempton by author
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN262
Date range Mar 1978
Inventory Identifier SKEM00765 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN263 David Nortcliffe, A preliminary report on the Kirklees iron bridge of 1769 and its builder, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, with letter from author to Skempton
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton

And letter from Alan Butcher to Skempton, 27 Oct [ny], enclosing copies of illustrations of the bridge

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN263
Date range 1979 - Oct 1980
Inventory Identifier SKEM00766 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN264 Typescript of Morgenstern’s 21st Rankine Lecture, ‘Geotechnical engineering and frontier research development’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN264
Date range Mar 1981
Inventory Identifier SKEM00767 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN265 Preprint of paper by Geoffrey Ian Crabb and Graham West, ‘Monitoring groundwater conditions in a highway embankment’ [Groundwater in Engineering Geology conference], nd, sent to Skempton by Graham West
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN265
Date range 11 Sept 1985, No date on article
Inventory Identifier SKEM00768 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN266 Typescript of D M Potts, G T Dounias and P R Vaughan, Finite element analysis of the direct shear box test
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Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN266
Date range July 1986
Inventory Identifier SKEM00769 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN267 Copy typescript of article by T H Al-Dabbagh and J C Cripps, ‘Data sources for planning: geomorphological mapping of landslides in north-east Derbyshire’, Engineering Geology Special Publication
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN267
Date range Oct 1987
Inventory Identifier SKEM00770 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN268 Stress analysis of earth dams [note for progress meeting]
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN268
Date range Dec 1987
Inventory Identifier SKEM00771 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN269 Typescript of discussion paper by P R Vaughan, ‘Discussion on Embankment Dams’, ICE Instrumentation Conference
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN269
Date range 1989
Inventory Identifier SKEM00772 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN270 Typescript of D M Potts, G T Dounias & P R Vaughan, ‘Finite element of analysis of progressive failure of Carsington Embankment’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN270
Date range Feb 1989
Inventory Identifier SKEM00773 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN271 Typescript of article by Nilmar Janbu [Norway], ‘Slope failures due to rainfall and loss of suction’, with covering letter from author
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN271
Date range 18 Oct 1989
Inventory Identifier SKEM00774 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN272 Offprint of article by J N Hutchinson, ‘Morphological and geotechnical parameters of landslides in relation to geology and hydrogeology’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN272
Date range No date [1988]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00775 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN273 Copy of article by P R Vaughan, ‘Engineering behaviour of Weak Rocks; some answers and some questions’, from Anagnostopoulos et al (eds), Geotechnical Engineering of Hard Soils - Soft Rocks, Rotterdam
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN273
Date range 1993
Inventory Identifier SKEM00776 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN274 Typescript of article by Martin Barnes, ‘Smeaton to Egan. The Extraordinary History of Civil Engineering Management’ [text of lecture, no further details]
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN274
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00777 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN275 Copy of article by John N Hutchinson, ‘Flexural slip: its incidence and engineering significance’, 11th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Copenhagen
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN275
Date range 1994
Inventory Identifier SKEM00778 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN276 Translation of article from Vienna, Hubert Borowicka, ‘Internal Friction and Rearrangement of Grains’, sent to Skempton
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN276
Date range July 1995
Inventory Identifier SKEM00779 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN277 Draft offprint of article by J N Hutchinson, ‘Landslide Hazard Assessment’, Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Landslides, Christchurch, New Zealand, vol 3, 1805-1841
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN277
Date range 1995
Inventory Identifier SKEM00780 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN278 Photocopy of article by John N Hutchinson, ‘The significance of tectonically produced pre-existing shears’, Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton

Volume 4 (identification and monitoring of geohazards)

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN278
Date range May 1995 - June 1995
Inventory Identifier SKEM00781 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN279 File labelled ‘Birthday Volume’: notes, correspondence, etc [relates to 70th birthday]
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN279
Date range Oct 1983 - Nov 1983
Inventory Identifier SKEM00782 Box Number 73 Series 21
PBN280 Photographs, correspondence, etc relating to Skempton’s article on ‘Engineering in the Port of London 1808-1833’
Typescript theses and articles sent to Skempton
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN280
Date range c. July 1983
Inventory Identifier SKEM00783 Series 21

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