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• Loose test records, etc
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO59
Date range No date
• File of correspondence, notes, etc
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO47
Date range c. Nov 2000 - c. Mar 2001
• Colour photographs of Bong Canal shear zone
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO70
Date range No date
• Small black & white photographs labelled ‘Zone A Ch 8.0’ and of man holding rock, Binnie & Partners, Mangla Dam project
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO69
Date range No date
• Photographs of Bong Canal, with covering letter from Binnie & Partners
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO68
Date range 20 Sept 1967
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO67
Date range No date
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO66
Date range No date
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO65
Date range No date
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO64
Date range No date
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO63
Date range No date
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO62
Date range No date
• Bundle of test results
Mornos, Greece
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO72
Date range Feb 1976
• Storage box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO60
Date range No date
• Stability calculations; settlements and movements/pore pressures; laboratory tests; reports
Mornos, Greece
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO73
Date range No date
• Contents of box file labelled ‘211 Mangla Dam: Tests at Jari’
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO58
Date range No date
• Contents of box file labelled ‘211 Mangla shear tests’
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO57
Date range c. Aug 1964 - c. Apr 1965
• Contents of box file relating to Siwalik palaeontology
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO56
Date range No date
• Contents of box file, including correspondence and photographs, relating to Mangla fossils
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO55
Date range No date
• Contents of box file, including correspondence, relating to Mangla stratigraphy and structure
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO54
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, etc on Siwalik stratigraphy and structure
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO53
Date range No date
• File of shear test data
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO52
Date range c. July 1964 - c. June 1965
• MS notes - ‘List of specimens’ (Sukian and Jari), pp 1-4, 8-10
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO51
Date range No date
• Copy of Skempton, ‘First Check List of Specimens from New Fossil Localities, Mangla Dam Project, West Pakistan’
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO50
Date range Feb 1967
• MS notes edited by Skempton, ‘Preliminary Description and Determination of the First Set of Specimens from New Fossil Localities, Mangla Dam Project, West Pakistan’
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO49
Date range No date
• Typescript of ‘Main Dam: Stability of the Upstream Slope after an Earthquake’ by Skempton, 5 June 1985, with letter from Skempton to J S Hertherington, Project Manager
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO98
Date range 7 June 1985
• Box of slides
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO61
Date range No date
• A W Skempton and N N Ambraseys, ‘Report on Tests on Sample 188, and a New Assessment of Residual Strength’ and ‘Report on the Use of Rapid Shear Test Results in Earthquake Design’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO85
Date range Sept 1983
• Notes, correspondence, photographs, etc relating to King George V reservoir
Chingford
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO1
Date range Jan 1938 - May 1940
• Typescript of ‘Liquefaction of sands in earthquakes. Comparison of field data (modified from Seed et al 1984) with analysis by Ambraseys’ – data from presentation at meeting with Professor Seed on Tuesday, 28 May
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO96
Date range 20 May 1985
• Typescript of ‘Notes on Standard Penetration Test Procedures’ by Skempton
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO95
Date range 7 May 1985
• Typescript by Skempton, ‘Notes on the Sand Layer in River Bed - BH KCV - 413’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO94
Date range Apr 1985
• Interim report by Skempton on ring shear tests on two samples (2925 and 2926) from the Siwalik Siltstones
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO93
Date range Oct 1984
• A W Skempton and Luis Lemos, ‘Report on Slow and Rapid Ring Shear Tests on Five Samples from the Siwalik Claystones and Siltstones’, with letter from Binnie & Partners to Kalabagh Consultants
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO92
Date range June 1984 - 5 Oct 1984
• Ring shear testing – proposals for further testing
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO91
Date range Mar 1984
• Two reports on residual strength of clays and siltstones
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO90
Date range Feb 1984
• ‘Design of filters’ (no author)
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO89
Date range No date
• Memorandum on seismic design criteria, Nov 1983, with letter to Skempton from Binnie & Partners
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO88
Date range 28 Nov 1983
• Plans, tables, graphs, etc
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO71
Date range c. Jan 1963 - c. Sept 1965
• Skempton’s ‘Report on Tests on Sample 910, with some considerations of the strengths to be used in design for seismic conditions’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO86
Date range Nov 1983
• Ring binder containing article by Skempton, ‘Review of Tests on Clay Bedrock at Mangla, Sukian and Jari’
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO46
Date range Feb 2001
• Small notebook with diary entries, details of research, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO84
Date range c. June 1983 - c. July 1984
• A W Skempton, Kalabagh Dam. Notes on the Proposal to use a Concrete Cutoff for the Main Dam
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO83
Date range July 1982
• Typescript note on two points by Skempton
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO82
Date range 16 Apr 1982
• A W Skempton & A L Little, Report on Kalabagh Dam proposals
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO81
Date range Apr 1982
• Confirmation of site
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO80
Date range Apr 1982
• S Taseer Hussain et al, ‘Neogene stratigraphy and fossil vertebrates of the Daud Khel area, Mianwali district, Pakistan’, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Pakistan, vol 13
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO79
Date range 1979
• Evaluation of sub-surface investigations, vol 1, geology foundations and materials
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO78
Date range Aug 1975 - Nov 1977
• Extracts from vol III (geology) of feasibility study
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO77
Date range 1975
• Drawing of dam
Bramianos
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO76
Date range No date
• File of notes, correspondence, reports, etc
Bramianos
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO75
Date range Apr 1980 - July 1980
• Correspondence; laboratory tests; blanket and consolidation grouting; drawings; photogeologic study of reservoir slopes
Mornos, Greece
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO74
Date range No date
• ‘Determination of clay mineralogy of Kalabagh claystone’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO87
Date range Nov 1983
• Six black and white photographs of Usk
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO8
Date range 1955
• Loose correspondence
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO48
Date range Feb 1965 - Dec 2000
• Book of technical drawings - contract n 2, civil engineering work. Volume 8: general and earthworks
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO17
Date range 1961
• Book of photographs of Jari shear zones
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO16
Date range No date
• N N Ambraseys, Mirpur Dyke. Report on the suitability of the Mirpur Saddle under seismic conditions
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO15
Date range Dec 1960
• A W Skempton, Mangla Dam. Report of visit to site and preliminary considerations on design, with copy letter to A L Little, Messrs Binnie, Deacon & Gourley, 8 Sept 1958
Mangla, Pakistan

See also RES(GEN)159-161

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO14
Date range 1958 - 1958
• Mangla Dam Project: preliminary drawings of proposals
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO13
Date range Nov 1955
• Offprints, notes, drawings, etc relating to Selset and Greenbooth
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO323
Date range c. 1962
• MS of article on Selset
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO322
Date range No date
• Plans, figures, etc relating to Selset
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO12
Date range No date
• Results of laboratory tests and correspondence relating to Selset
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO11
Date range c. Jan 1956 - c. Nov 1960
• Book of technical drawings - contract no , civil engineering work. Volme 10: hydro-electric works
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO19
Date range 1961
• Two drawings of Usk dam
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO9
Date range No date [post 1956]
• Book of techical drawings - contract no 2, civil engineering work. Volume 11: tailrace works, permanent roads, engineers’ staff quarters, permanent water supply
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO20
Date range 1961
• Copy of article and drawings relating to Chew Stoke
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO321
Date range No date
• Drawing of Chew Stoke
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO7
Date range No date [post 1954]
• Box of glass plates relating to Chew Stoke
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO6
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc relating to Muirhead, Knockendon, Usk, Hanningfield, Walton and Selset
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO320
Date range No date
• File relating to Muirhead: reports, graphs, etc
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO319
Date range c. Dec 1941 - c. July 1942
• Notes, copies of articles, etc on Muirhead, Knockendon and Glen Shira dams
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO5
Date range Apr 1940 - Mar 1991
• File relating to analysis of the failure of the dam during construction, including report by Terzaghi
Chingford
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO349
Date range Mar 1938 - Mar 1942
• Folder of notes
Chingford
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO318
Date range c. July 1937 - c. Sept 1939
• Drawings
Chingford
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO4
Date range July 1937 - Sept 1937
• Notes on stability analysis and foundation engineering analysis
Chingford
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO3
Date range July 1937 - Feb 1988
• Test results and reports
Chingford
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO2
Date range May 1937 - Sept 1993
• Notes, copies of articles, etc on Usk and Daer
Small dam projects
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO10
Date range c. Jan 1950 - c. June 1959
• Report on pore pressures
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO33
Date range 24 Nov 1965
• Henderson memorial volume. Mangla Dam, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO45
Date range 1971
• Mangla (reprinted from Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol 38, Nov 1967, pp 337-576, & vol 41, Sept 1968, pp 119-203, nd
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO44
Date range Sept 1968
• Offprint of J G Eldridge & A L Little, ‘The seismic design of earth dams of the Mangla project’, Commission Internationale des Grand Barrages, Istanbul, 1967, pp 39-55
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO43
Date range 1967
• Skempton, G M Binnie & J F F Clark, ‘The effect of discontinuities in clay bedrock on the design of dams in the Mangla project’, 9th congress on large dams, Istanbul
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO42
Date range 1967
• Brochure on the inauguration of the Mangla Dam project
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO41
Date range 23 Nov 1967
• A W Skempton, Informal Notes on a Site Visit to Mangla 3rd-13th February 1967
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO40
Date range 3 Feb 1967 - 13 Feb 1967
• Notebook
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO39
Date range Feb 1967
• Jari Dam. Geological note on slips in bedrock on a temporary slope downstream of the core trench, Nullah III west, right rimworks
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO38
Date range 30 May 1966
• Folder containing figs 31-60 (relating to PRO36)
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO37
Date range No date
• Engineering of Mangla, text (various authors - not Skempton)
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO36
Date range No date
• Book of technical drawings - contract no 2, civil engineering work. Volume 9: main spillway
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO18
Date range 1961
• Shear zone surfaces Sukian Dam clay beds 504 & 514
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO34
Date range 29 Dec 1965
• Typescript of 1st meeting of panel of experts
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO99
Date range Feb 1983
• Detailed studies on some Jari shear zones, Binnie & Partners
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO32
Date range Sept 1965
• Sukian Dam, bedrock slide at chainage 291
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO31
Date range 28 Aug 1965
• Jari green programme (interim report)
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO30
Date range 30 June 1965
• Report on clays by Robert H S Roberton, with correspondence
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO29
Date range Oct 1962 - Sept 1967, Report dated 20 Apr 1965
• Folder of notes, etc on project, with article by Peter G Fookes and Kenneth H Head and related correspondence
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO28
Date range June 1964 - Jan 1965
• Notes of meetings
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO27
Date range 25 Nov 1964 - 27 Nov 1964
• Copy of MS notes - recommendations for review of drain well spacing, given to Binnie & Partners, by Mr P T Bennett
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO26
Date range 26 Nov 1964
• Plans relating to Sukian Dam - bedrock gravel investigation
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO25
Date range Sept 1964
• The Engineer, supplement on large dams (including Mangla)
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO24
Date range May 1964
• A W Skempton, Mangla and Jari Dams. Site Visit
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO22
Date range October 1962
• Folder of notes on site visits
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO21
Date range 1961
• Construction of Mangla, text by G H Atkinson & R S Kerr
Mangla, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO35
Date range No date
• Loose correspondence about Carsington, relating to Professor Rowe’s paper
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO162
Date range Nov 1991
• Civil Engineering: Water Maritime and Energy, vol 101, no 1 (relating to Carsington)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO150
Date range Mar 1993
• File of notes on Petley’s tests
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO173
Date range No date
• File on BRS tests
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO172
Date range c. Sept 1984
• Test data: Carsington a, b1 - b2 - all tests
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO171
Date range No date
• File of notes, etc on laboratory tests (zone II)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO170
Date range No date
• File of notes on laboratory tests, yellow clay
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO169
Date range c. Oct 1984
• File on test data
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO168
Date range 1990 - 1991
• File of notes, etc on core material
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO167
Date range c. Sept 1985
• File of notes on laboratory tests (core)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO166
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on laboratory tests
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO165
Date range No date
• File of notes on stability analysis
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO175
Date range No date
• Notes on Borrow Pits, superficial folding - photographs, plans and correspondence Related inventory ID: SKEM/ PRO140
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO163
Date range c. Oct 1990
• File of notes on foundation engineering analysis
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO176
Date range No date
• Fax from Skempton to Babties about Prof Rowe’s paper on Carsington reconstruction
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO161
Date range 25 Sept 1991
• Report by P R Vaughan, ‘Carsington embankment reconstruction. Interpretation of instrumentation readings - end-of-construction 1991’
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO160
Date range July 1991
• Carsington embankment reconstruction – notes for report on excavation of old slip by P R Vaughan
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO159
Date range Mar 1991
• Report by P R Vaughan to Severn-Trent Water and Babtie, Shaw & Morton on Carsington Embankment reconstruction - undrained strength and water content of core
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO158
Date range 21 May 1990
• Report by P R Vaughan to Severn-Trent Water and Babtie, Shaw & Morton on Carsington Embankment reconstruction - foundation excavation in weathered mudstone
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO157
Date range 20 May 1990
• Typed memorandum from P R Vaughan to Babtie Shaw & Morton, Glasgow, on Carsington Embankment reconstruction
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO156
Date range 19 Feb 1988
• Memo from P R Vaughan to Babtie Shaw & Morton, about Carsington Embankment reconstruction
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO155
Date range 15 Apr 1987
• File of correspondence, plans, etc
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO154
Date range Nov 1983 - June 1984
• File of correspondence, photographs, plans, etc
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO153
Date range July 1984 - July 1987
• Copy of notes on shear zones within and below head deposits
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO152
Date range Aug 1984
• Typescript by Skempton, ‘Liquefaction Potential of Sand Layers in the River Alluvium and Terrace Deposits’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO97
Date range 24 May 1985
• Plans, correspondence, articles, notes, etc
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO164
Date range c. 1984 - c. 1985
• File of notes on settlements
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO188
Date range Oct 1982 - June 1984
• Copies of articles, notes and drawings
Walton (Queen Elizabeth II reservoir)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO325
Date range No date
• Drawing of reservoir
Walton (Queen Elizabeth II reservoir)
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO199
Date range No date
• Box of transparencies
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO198
Date range No date
• Plans, figures, tables, etc
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO197
Date range c. Sept 1990 - c. Nov 1990
• Packet of slides for BNCOLD/BGS meeting on Carsington
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO196
Date range Jan 1986
• Sheets of test data, Carsington dam reconstruction, May - Oct 1990 & Apr - June 1991
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO195
Date range May 1990 - June 1991
• File on reconstruction (instrumentation)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO194
Date range c. July 1990 - c. June 1991
• File on new design
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO193
Date range c. Aug 1990 - c. Dec 1991
• File relating to redesign
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO192
Date range Apr 1985 - Oct 1986
• File of notes, etc on factor of safety, residual factor and reductions
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO191
Date range c. May 1987
• File of notes on stability analysis
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO174
Date range c. Feb 1985
• File of notes on dark grey clay and brecciated mudstone (b3 - b4 - b5 test results)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO189
Date range c. May 1992
• Civil Engineering, vol 92, no 3 (relating to Carsington)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO149
Date range Aug 1992
• File of notes on pore pressures
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO187
Date range 1983 - 1984
• Folder of drawings on instrumented sections
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO186
Date range No date
• File of notes on movement pegs and distortion of dam
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO185
Date range c. May 1984 - c. July 1984
• File of notes, etc, on crack length and width
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO184
Date range c. June 1984
• File of notes, etc on pit logs
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO183
Date range July 1984 - Sept 1984
• File of plans on shear surfaces
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO182
Date range Oct 1984
• File of notes on zone II (density, etc)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO181
Date range c. Aug 1987
• File of notes on zone II
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO180
Date range c. July 1984 - c. Oct 1986
• File of notes on zone I fill
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO179
Date range May 1984
• File of notes, etc about new foundation analysis
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO178
Date range Feb 1987
• File of notes on foundation engineering analysis
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO177
Date range No date
• File of notes on first-time slides
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO190
Date range No date
• Drawings and test bed results, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO111
Date range c. June 1983
• Civil Engineering, vol 114, no 2 (relating to Carsington)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO151
Date range May 1996
• Fast Ring Shear Request figures and correspondence
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO122
Date range c. Mar 1984
• File relating to RSB tests summary
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO121
Date range c. Feb 1984
• Tests with reports and correspondence
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO120
Date range c. Mar 1985 - c. Feb 1987
• Notes, correspondence, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO119
Date range c. Dec 1982 - c. Jan 1984
• Notes, photographs and correspondence
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO118
Date range c. Mar 1984 - c. July 1988
• Contents of box file labelled ‘Kalabagh Test Results’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO117
Date range c. May 1983 - c. June 1983
• Annexures 1 and 2 of feasibility report
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO116
Date range June 1975
• Booklet of drawings
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO115
Date range No date
• File labelled ‘Notes 26 March - 4 April 1982’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO114
Date range 26 Mar 1982 - 4 Apr 1982
• Loose reports and test data
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO124
Date range c. Sept 1983 - c. July 1985
• File labelled ‘Kalabagh Group Tika’s tests’ - includes correspondence with Theodora Tika, Aristotle University of Thessalonika, Greece
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO112
Date range 25 June 1997
• Pressure pipe observations showing present position of pressure contour
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO125
Date range No date
• File of correspondence, notes, etc – sandstone tests, cracking
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO110
Date range 1980s
• File labelled ‘Kalabagh April 1984’ - reports, test data and drawings
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO109
Date range c. Apr 1984
• File of notes on mineralogy, particle size
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO108
Date range No date
• File of correspondence, test results, notes, graphs, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO107
Date range 1980s
• Correspondence, reports, drawings, etc, ‘exhibit I’
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO106
Date range 1980s
• Loose correspondence
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO105
Date range July 1982 - Feb 1987
• Typescript of 6th meeting of panel of experts
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO104
Date range July 1985
• Report on short meeting of panel of experts, Feb 1985, with letter to Skempton from Binnie & Partners, enclosing panel of experts’ report of 5th meeting
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO103
Date range 6 Mar 1985
• Typescript of 4th meeting of panel of experts
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO102
Date range Nov 1984
• Typescript of 3rd meeting of panel of experts
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO101
Date range Jan 1984
• Typescript of panel of experts meeting on strength of Claystone beds
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO100
Date range Dec 1983
• File labelled ‘1st file’ - correspondence, reports, drawings, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO113
Date range c. Mar 1981 - c. Nov 1983
• Skempton, ‘Carsington Dam. Summary and conclusions regarding the mechanism of failure’, report to Severn Trent Water Authority
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO136
Date range May 1987
• Skempton, G Rocke & P R Vaughan, ‘The failure of Carsington Dam’, submitted to Géotechnique, with synopsis and covering letter from Skempton
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO148
Date range 20 Mar 1992 - July 1992
• New Civil Engineer, no 995 (article on Carsington)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO147
Date range 21 May 1992
• Typescript of R W Chalmers, D J Coats & P R Vaughan, ‘The design and performance of the reconstructed Carsington Dam’, paper submitted to Institution of Civil Engineers
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO146
Date range May 1992
• ‘The failure of Carsington Dam and its investigation’ [author unknown]
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO145
Date range No date [Mar 1992]
• Discussion for Géotechnique, of P W Rowe, ‘A reassessment of the causes of the Carsington embankment failure’, Géotechnique, vol 41, no 3, 1991, by P R Vaughan & R W Chalmers
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO144
Date range Feb 1992
• ‘Carsington Dam reconstruction. Report on density and strength parameters of the fill material’, Geotechnical Consulting Group
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO143
Date range Nov 1991
• Copy of ‘Slope stability engineering developments and applications’, Proceedings of the international conference on slope stability, Isle of Wight (relates to Carsington)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO142
Date range Apr 1991
• Copy of P R Vaughan, ‘Stability analysis of deep slides in brittle soil – lessons from Carsington’, Proceedings of the International Conference on Slope Stability Engineering
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO141
Date range 1991
• ‘Report on superficial folding observed in the borrow pit’ Related inventory ID: SKEM/ PRO163
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO140
Date range Dec 1990
• Geotechnical Consulting Group, ‘Carsington dam reconstruction. Report on strength parameters of the fill materials’
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO139
Date range Nov 1990
• File of test data
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO123
Date range No date
• Skempton et al, ‘Solifluction shears at Carsington, Derbyshire’
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO137
Date range No date [post 1988]
• Box of slides
Miscellany relating to dams
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO200
Date range No date
• Severn-Trent Water Authority report on geochemical aspects of mudstone degradation, Carsington Dam, report no 2
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO135
Date range No date [Nov 1986]
• R E Coxon, Failure of Carsington embankment, Dept of the Environment
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO134
Date range June 1986
• Bound typescript, ‘The mechanism of failure’, report on Carsington Dam (3 vols)
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO133
Date range Mar 1986
• Severn Trent Water Authority, review of Options for Reconstruction
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO132
Date range May 1985
• Typescript of report on Carsington Dam (investigation of embankment) - laboratory tests carried out by University of Warwick Dept of Engineering [with covering letter, 26 Mar 1985, and loose notes]
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO131
Date range Mar 1985
• Severn Trent Water Authority, Mechanism of Failure. Report on Principal Findings
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO130
Date range Mar 1985
• J K Banyard, R E Coxon & T A Johnston, ‘Carsington reservoir - an overview’
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO129
Date range No date [post 1984]
• Severn Trent Water Authority, interim report on investigation of embankment
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO128
Date range Oct 1984
• Envelope of notes, offprints, graphs, drawings, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO324
Date range No date
• Drawing of overway spillway and photographs
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO127
Date range No date
• Tables, graphs, drawings, etc
Kalabagh, Pakistan
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO126
Date range No date
• Copy of article by P R Vaughan, ‘Carsington embankment failure improves our understanding of landslides’, British Association Science ’89, Sheffield
Carsington, Derbyshire
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO138
Date range 13 Sept 1989
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