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• Page proofs of Peter George Fookes and David Gordon Parrish, Observations on small-scale structural discontinuities in the London clay and their relationship to regional
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN96
Date range No date
• Laurits Bjerrum, The Effective Shear Strength Parameters of Sensitive Clays, Norwegian Technical Institute
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN88
Date range Aug 1960
• Offprint of N R Morgenstern, ‘Submarine Slumping and the initiation of turbidity currents’, Marine Geotechnique, edited by Adrian F Richards, Illinois, pp 189-220
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN103
Date range 1967
• Offprint of F C Kögler, ‘Geotechnical properties of recent marine sediments from the Arabian Sea and the Baltic Sea’, from Adrian F Richards, Marine Geotechnique, Illinois, pp 170-176
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN102
Date range 1967
• George Ter-Stepanian, ‘The use of observations of slope deformation for analysis of mechanism of landslides’, Armenia
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN101
Date range 1967
• A W Bishop, Soils and Soft Rocks as Engineering Materials (inaugural lecture), pp 289-313
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN100
Date range 17 May 1966
• Offprint of Keith M Clayton, ‘The origin of the landforms of the Malham area’, Field Studies, vol 2, no 3, pp 359-384
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN99
Date range 1966
• Offprint of N R Morgenstern and J S Tchalenko, ‘The optical determination of preferred orientation in clays and its application to the study of microstructure in consolidated kaolin I', Proceedings of Royal Society A, vol 300, pp 218-234
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN105
Date range 1967
• Offprint of F Esu and S Martinetti, ‘Considerazioni sulle caratteristiche tecniche delle argilla plio-pleistoceniche della fascia costiera adriatica tra Rimini e Vasto’, Geotecnica, no 4, [in Italian]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN97
Date range 1965
• Offprint of N R Morgenstern and J S Tchalenko, ‘The optical determination of preferred orientation in clays and its application to the study of microstructure in consolidated kaolin II', Proceedings of Royal Society A, vol 300, pp 235-250
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN106
Date range 1967
• M P Kerney, E H Brown & T J Chandler, ‘The late-glacial and post-glacial history of the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, vol 248, no 745, pp 135-204
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN95
Date range 26 Nov 1964
• Copy of article by T K Chaplin, ‘How high can we build a dam’, New Scientist, no 373, pp 81-83
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN94
Date range Jan 1964
• M P Kerney, ‘Late-glacial deposits on the chalk of south-east England’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, vol 246, no 730, pp 203-254 [with MS notes by Skempton]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN93
Date range 4 Apr 1963
• Adrian F Richards, Investigations of deep-sea sediment cores II. Mass physical properties, Washington DC
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN92
Date range Oct 1962
• Offprint of J Brinch Hansen, ‘Relationships between stability analyses with total and with effective stresses’, Danish Geotechnical Institute Bulletin, no 15, Copenhagen
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN91
Date range 1962
• Offprint of N N Ambraseys, ‘The seismic stability of earth dams’, Proceedings of 2nd World Conference on earthquakes, Tokyo, pp 1345-1363
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN90
Date range 1960
• Offprint of Richard John Chandler, ‘Periglacial mudslides in Vest-Spitsbergen and their bearing on the origin of fossil ‘solifluction’ shears in low angled clay slopes’, The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, vol 5, no 3, pp 223-241
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN131
Date range Dec 1972
• Offprint of G Colonnetti, ‘L’azione del vento su la torre di Pisa’
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN98
Date range Feb 1965
• ‘Sperrin Mountains and adjacent areas in the north of Ireland’, Irish Geography, vol VI, no 2, pp 162-185, with loose insert
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him

Insert - Eric A Colhoun, ‘Early record and interpretation of ice-wedge pseudomorph in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, by J R Kilroe’, Journal of Glaciology, vol 9, no 57, 1970, pp 391-392

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN122
Date range 1970
• Offprint of E H Davis & H G Poulos, ‘The use of elastic theory for settlement prediction under three-dimensional condititons’, Géotechnique, vol 18, pp 67-91
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN112
Date range Mar 1968
• Offprint of M Bozozuk & G A Leonards, ‘The Gloucester test fill’, Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, vol IX, no 2, spring 1972, pp 299-317
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN129
Date range 1972
• Offprint of Robert F Legget, ‘Engineering geology in perspective’, Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, vol IX, no 2, spring 1972, pp 79-88
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN128
Date range 1972
• C B Crawford & J G Sutherland, ‘The Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia. Sixty-five years of foundation settlements’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol VIII, no 1, pp 77-93
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN127
Date range Feb 1971
• Offprint of F Esu and B D’Elia, ‘Pore pressures in a clay tip’, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Soil Mechanics, Budapest, pp 385-395
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN126
Date range 1971
• Offprint of F Esu, B D’Elia & G Manfredini, ‘Caratteri strutturali delle argille lacustri pliocenische del Valdarno Superiore’, Bolletin Societa Geologicha Italiana, vol 90, pp 23-46 [in Italian]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN125
Date range 1971
• Offprint of Adrian F Richards and Edwin L Hamilton, ‘Investigations of deep-sea sediment cores, III. Consolidation’, from Adrian F Richards (ed), Marine Geotechnique, Illinois
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN104
Date range 1967
• Offprint of J S Tchalenko, ‘Similarities between Shear Zones of Different Magnitudes’, Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol 81, pp 1625-1640
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN123
Date range June 1970
• Offprint of F Esu, ‘Indagine sulla compressibilità della lignite di morcone’, Geotecnica, no 4
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN87
Date range 1960
• Offprint of Richard John Chandler, ‘The degradation of Lias clay slopes in an area of the east Midlands’, The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, vol 2, no 3, pp 161-181
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN121
Date range Feb 1970
• Offprint of N Stephens, ‘The coastline of Ireland’, from Irish Geographical Studies, Belfast, pp 125-145, sent to Skempton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN120
Date range 1970
• Offprint of A W Bishop, ‘Progressive Failure - with Special Reference to the Mechanism Causing it’, Proceedings of the Geotechnical Conference, Oslo, vol II
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN111
Date range 1967
• George Ter-Stepanian, ‘The thickening of geodetic network in built-up or wooded landslide areas for observation of slope dynamics’, Armenia
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN110
Date range 1968
• Offprint of Robert F Legget, ‘Soil: Its Geology and Use’, Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol 78, pp 1433-1459
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN109
Date range Dec 1967
• Copy of article by N R Morgenstern and J S Tchalenko, ‘Microscopic structures in kaolin subjected to direct shear’, Géotechnique, vol 17, pp 309-328
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN108
Date range 1967
• Laurits Bjerrum, ‘Engineering Geology of Normally Consolidated Marine Clays as related to Settlements of Buildings’ (7th Rankine Lecture, 15 Feb 1967), Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN107
Date range 1967
• Offprint of R J Chandler, ‘Soliflution on low-angled slopes in Northamptonshire’, The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, vol 3, no 1, pp 65-69
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN124
Date range Dec 1970
• J N Hutchinson, ‘Theme lecture: Periglacial and slope processes’, from Forster et al, Quaternary Engineering Geology, pp 283-331
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN204
Date range 1991
• Offprint of R G West & B W Sparks, ‘Coastal interglacial deposits of the English Channel’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, vol 243, no 701, pp 95-133
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN89
Date range Oct 1960
• Copy of C R I Clayton, H Müller Steinhagen & W Powrie, ‘Terzaghi’s theory of consolidation, and the discovery of effective stress’, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Geotechncial Engineering, vol 113, pp 191-205
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN211
Date range Oct 1995
• Offprint of article by John N Hutchinson, ‘Deep-seated mass movements on slopes’, Memorie della Societa Geologica d’Italia, vol 50, pp 147-164
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN210
Date range 1995
• T J Wilkinson & P L Murphy, Archaeology of the Essex coast, volume I: the Hullbridge Survey, with MS notes by Skempton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN209
Date range 1995
• Offprint of article by M M Chrimes, ‘Hugh McIntosh (1768 – 1840), National Contractor’, Transactions of The Newcomen Society, vol 66, pp 175-192 [sent to Skempton by author]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN208
Date range 1994 - 1995
• Offprint of article by P R Vaughan, ‘Assumption, prediction and reality in geotechnical engineering’, Géotechnique, vol 44, no 4, pp 573-609 [34th Rankine Lecture]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN207
Date range 1994
• Offprint of article by Roger Woodley, ‘Professionals: Early Episodes among Architects and Engineers’, Construction History, vol 15, pp 15-22
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN213
Date range 1999
• Photocopy of article by J N Hutchinson, ‘Engineering in Relict Periglacial and Extraglacial Areas in Britain’, Quaternary Proceedings, no 2, pp 49-65
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN205
Date range 1992
• Rowland J Mainstone, The Dome of St Peter’s. Structural Aspects of its Design and Construction, and Inquiries into its Stability, offprint from AA files 39, pp 21-39, with letter from author
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN214
Date range Autumn 1999 - 20 Jan 2000
• Offprint of R J Chandler, ‘A shallow slab slide in the lias clay near Uppingham, Rutland’, Géotechnique, vol 20, no 3, pp 253-260
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN119
Date range Sept 1970
• A W Bishop and V K Garga, ‘Drained tension tests on London clay’, Géotechnique, pp 309-313
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN118
Date range June 1969
• Copy of article by G Margason and I F Symons, ‘Use of Pore-Pressure Measurements to Control Embankment Construction on Soft Foundations’, 7th International Conference ISSMFE, Mexico, vol 2, pp 307-315
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN117
Date range 1969
• Offprint of Helmut J Körner, ‘Kinematische Betrachtungen zum Rankineschen Spannungszustand in der geneighten, Kriechenden Schicht’, Felsmechanik und Ingenieurgeol, supplement V, pp 33-54
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN116
Date range 1969
• Offprint of F Esu and B D’Elia, ‘Franamenti di alti fronti di scavo. Confronto tra previsioni e comportamento reale’, Rivista Italiana di Geotecnica, no 3, pp 3-18
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN115
Date range 1969
• Offprint of John Stephen Tchalenko, ‘The microstructure of London Clay’, The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, vol 1, no 3
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN114
Date range Dec 1968
• Offprint of J S Tchalenko, ‘The evolution of kink-bands and the development of compression textures in sheared clays’, Tectonophysics, vol 6, no 2, pp 159-174
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN113
Date range 1968
• Article by John N Hutchinson, ‘Some aspects of the morphological and geotechnical parameters of landslides, with examples drawn from Italy and elsewhere’, Geologica Romana, vol XXX
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN206
Date range 1994
• Garth Watson, The Civils. The story of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN78
Date range 1988
• Quido Záruba, ‘Superficial quasi-plastic deformations of rocks’, Rozpravy, vol 66, in Czech with translation into English and Russian
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN86
Date range 1956
• Ralph B Peck and William C Reed, Engineering Properties of Chicago Subsoils, University of Illinois, USA, (with loose notes)
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN85
Date range 1954
• Offprint of Arthur Casagrande, ‘Classification and identification of soils’, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineering, vol 73, pp 783-810
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN84
Date range 1947
• Offprint of H Godwin, ‘Studies of the Post-glacial History of British vegetation', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, section B, vol 230, no 570, pp 239-303 (with loose inserts)
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN83
Date range Feb 1940
• Copy of extract (pp 12-14) from History of the Forth Bridge, 1911, relating to Mr Anderson’s bridge, sent to Skempton by Alun Butcher
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN82
Date range No date
• Richard L Hills, Power from wind, Cambridge
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN81
Date range 1994
• Civil Engineering, vol 126, no 2, sent to Skempton by Roland Paxton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN212
Date range May 1998
• Garth Watson, The Smeatonians. Society of Civil Engineers
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN79
Date range 1989
• Photocopy of article by D A Spears and R K Taylor, ‘The influence of weathering on the composition and engineering properties of in situ coal measures rocks’, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, vol 9, pp 729-756
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN132
Date range 1972
• A Company’s story in its setting. Samuel Williams & Sons Ltd 1855-1955; letter from L T C Rolt (one of the authors) to Skempton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN77
Date range 1955
• Offprint of J N Hutchinson, ‘Reading the Ground: Morphology and Geology in Site Appraisal’ [4th Glossop Lecture], Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, vol 34, pp 7-50 [sent to Skempton with thanks for inspiration]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN220
Date range 2001
• D R Bridgland, ‘River terrace systems in north-west Europe: an archive of environmental change, uplift and early human occupation’, Quaternary Science Review, vol 19, pp 1293-1303
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN219
Date range 2000
• D R Bridgland, ‘River terrace systems in north-west Europe: an archive of environmental change, uplift and early human occupation’, Quaternary Science Review, vol 1, pp 1293-1303
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN218
Date range 2000
• NUMBER NOT USED
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN217
• Photocopy of article by J N Hutchinson, E N Bromhead and M P Chandler, ‘Investigations of the landslides at St Catherine’s Point, Isle of Wight’ [no further details]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN216
Date range No date
• Photocopy of article by E N Bromhead, M P Chandler and J N Hutchinson, ‘The recent history and geotechnics of landslides at Gore Cliff, Isle of Wight’ [no further details]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN215
Date range No date
• Wilbur Cross, 75 Years of Foundation Engineering (Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers), New York, 1985, and letter from firm to Thomas Telford Services Ltd about Skempton’s obituary of Rudolph Glossop,
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN80
Date range 1985 - 25 Feb 1994
• J G James, The application of Iron to Bridges and other works in Russia to about 1850 (advance copy of paper to be given to Newcomen Society, Jan 1983), with manuscript notes [by Skempton?]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN176
Date range Jan 1983
• A Horton, B C Worssam & P Worsley, ‘The Wallingford Fan Gravel’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, vol 293, no 1064, pp 215-255, with letter to Skempton from Albert Horton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN168
Date range July 1981 - Aug 1981
• Offprint of article by R J Chandler, ‘Recent European experience of landslides in over-consolidated clays and soft rocks’, 4th international symposium on landslides, Toronto
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN183
Date range Sept 1984
• Docklands History Survey. A guide to research, preliminary edition
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN182
Date range June 1984
• Offprint of article by R J Chandler and J P Apted, ‘The effect of weathering on the strength of London Clay’, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, vol 21, pp 59-68
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN181
Date range 1988
• C F Moon & C W Hurst, ‘Fabric of muds and shales: an overview’, from D A V Stow & D J W Piper, Fine-grained sediments: deep water processes and facies, Oxford, 1984, and letter from Colin Moon, 1 Mar 1985
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN180
Date range 1984 - 1985
• Offprint of A B Hawkins, ‘Depositional characteristics of estuarine alluvium: some engineering implications, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, London, vol 17, pp 219-234
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN179
Date range 1984
• Offprint of article by R C Bridle, P R Vaughan & H N Jones, ‘Empingham Dam – design, construction and performance’, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol 78, pp 247-289
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN185
Date range Apr 1985
• George G Meyerhof, ‘Ultimate Pile Capacity for Eccentric Inclined Load (with A Sahap Yalcin and Surendra K Mathur), Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, vol 109, no 3, pp 408-423, sent to Skempton by author
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN177
Date range Mar 1983
• Yu Tiao-Mei, Foundation engineering in Shanghai [presented to Skempton by author]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN186
Date range 1985
• Jan Rybar, Examples of the loosening of rock slopes in the Bohemian massif’, Armenia, sent to Skempton by George Ter-Stepanian
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN175
Date range 1982
• Copy of article by R J Devoy, ‘Analysis of the geological evidence for Holocene sea-level movements in southeast England’, Proceedings of the Geological Association, vol 93, no 1, pp 65-90
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN174
Date range 1982
• George G Meyerhof, Bearing capacity and settlement of foundations in sand based on static cone penetration tests’ Amici et Alunmni, Brussels, pp 217-222, sent to Skempton by author
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN173
Date range 1982
• George G Meyerhof, ‘Limit states design in geotechnical engineering’ Structural Safety, vol 1, pp 67-71, sent to Skempton by author
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN172
Date range 1982
• Offprint of article by R J Chandler, ‘Lias clay slope sections and their implications for the prediction of limiting or threshold slope angles’, Earth surface processes and landforms, vol 7, pp 427-438
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN171
Date range 1982
• Copy of Gary D Johnson et al, ‘Magnetic Reversal Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Tectonic History of the Upper Siwalik Group Eastern Salt Range and Southwestern Kashmir’, from Abul Farah & Kees A De Jong (eds), Geodynamics of Pakistan
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN170
Date range 1979
• Offprint of M Bozozuk, ‘Foundation failure of the Vankleek Hill tower silo’, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineering Specialty Conference on Performance of Earth and Earth-Supported Structures, Ottawa, pp 885-902
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN130
Date range July 1972
• Offprint of article by J N Hutchinson, ‘Landslides in Britain and their countermeasures’, Journal of Japan Landslide Society, 21-1, pp 1-24
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN178
Date range July 1984
• D Q Bowen & G A Sykes, ‘Correlation of marine events and glaciations on the northeast Atlantic margin’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, vol 318, pp 619-635 [with four loose drawings]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN194
Date range 1988
• Offprint of article by D M Potts, G T Dounias & P R Vaughan, ‘Finite element analysis of progressive failure of Carsington embankment’, Géotechique, vol 40, no 1, pp 79-101
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN202
Date range 1990
• Copy of article by J Perry and M P O’Reilly, ‘A survey of slope condition on British motorways’ [6th international IAEG conference, Rotterdam, 1990]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN201
Date range 1990
• Copy of article by Pantelis Pantelopoulos, ‘The construction and performance of the Mornos Dam (Greece) [9th Krakow conference] - sent to Skempton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN200
Date range 1990
• Photocopy of article by E N Bromhead, M P Chandler and J N Hutchinson, ‘The recent history and geotechnics of landslides at Gore Cliff, Isle of Wight’ [no further details]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN199
Date range No date [1980s]
• Photocopy of article by E N Bromhead, M P Chandler and J N Hutchinson, ‘The recent history and geotechnics of landslides at Gore Cliff, Isle of Wight’ [no further details]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN198
Date range No date
• J Perry, A survey of slope condition on motorway earthworks in England and Wales [Dept of Transport Research Report 199], with inserted notes
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN197
Date range 1989
• A Croce, ‘Old monuments and citites research and preservation’, Geotechnical engineering in Italy, ISSMFE golden jubilee, pp 362-415, with note from author
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN184
Date range 1985
• Offprint of article by J N Hutchinson, ‘General report: Morphological and geotechnical parameters of landslides in relation to geology and hydrogeology’, Proceedings of the fifth international symposium on landslides, Lausanne, Switzerland
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN195
Date range July 1988
• Offprint of article by J C Cripps & R K Taylor, ‘The engineering properties of mudrocks’, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, London, vol 14, pp 325-346
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN167
Date range 1981
• Offprint of article by R J Firman and M A Lovell, ‘The geology of the Nottingham region: A review of some engineering and environmental aspects’, from Bell et al (eds), Engineering Geology of Underground Movements, pp 33-51
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him

Sent to Skempton by authors

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN193
Date range 1988
• Offprint of article by George T Dounias, David M Potts & Peter R Vaughan, ‘The shear strength of soils containing undulating shear zones – a numerical study’, pp 550-558
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN192
Date range 1988
• Quaternary Science Reviews, vol 6, no 3/4 [with loose papers inserted]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN191
Date range 1987
• Offprint of article by John Pitts and Denys Brunsden, ‘A reconsideration of the Bindon Landslide of 1839’, Proceedings of the Geological Association, vol 98, no 1, pp 1-18
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN190
Date range 1987
• Offprint of keynote paper by John N Hutchinson, ‘Cliffs and Shores in Cohesive Materials: Geotechnical and Engineering Geological Aspects’, Proceedings of the Symposium on Cohesive Shores, Ontario, Canada
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN189
Date range 1986
• Offprint of article by Ian Shennan, ‘Flandrian sea-level changes in the Fenland. II: Tendencies of sea-level movement, altitudinal changes, and local and regional factors’, Journal of Quaternary Science, vol 1, no 2, pp 155-179
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN188
Date range 1986
• Jean Kérisel, The history of geotechnical engineering up until 1799, 1st section of Golden Jubilee Book on history of geomechancis written for 50th anniversary of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering,
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him

To be issued at XIth International Conference, San Francisco

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN187
Date range Aug 1985
• A B Hawkins, W J Larnach, I M Lloyd & D F T Nash, ‘Selecting the location, and the initial investigation of the SERC soft clay bed site’, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, London, vol 22, pp 281-316
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN196
Date range 1989
• Offprint of Alan W Bishop, ‘The strength of crustal materials’, Engineering Geology, vol 8, pp 139-153
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN140
Date range 1974
• Offprint of Akio Nakase, ‘Bearing capacity of rectangular footings on clays of strength increasing linearly with depth’, Soils and foundations, vol 26, no 4, pp 101-108
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN169
Date range Dec 1981
• Rolf Larsson, Basic behaviour of Scandinavian soft clays, Linköping, Sweden
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN147
Date range 1977
• K V Helenelund, Methods for reducing undrained shear strength of soft clay, Linköping
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN146
Date range 1977
• Offprint of article by J N Hutchinson and T P Gostelow, ‘The development of an abandoned cliff in London Clay at Hadleigh, Essex’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, vol 283, pp 557-604
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN145
Date range 1976
• Offprint of A W Bishop, N K Kumapley and A El-Ruwayih, ‘The influence of pore-water tension on the strength of clay’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, vol 278, no 1286, pp 511-554
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN144
Date range July 1975
• Copy of article by J J Wymer, R M Jacobi and J Rose, ‘Late Devensian and Early Flandrian Barbed Points from Sproughton, Suffolk’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol 41, pp 235-241, sent to Skempton by Jim Rose
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN143
Date range 1975
• A W Bishop and A E Skinner, ‘The influence of high pore-water pressure on the strength of cohesionless soils’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol 284, no 1318, pp 91-130
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN149
Date range Jan 1977
• F C Cox and E F Nickless (reply by A Straw), ‘The glacial geomorphology of central and north Norfolk’, The East Midland Geographer, vol 6, part 2 no 42, pp 92-98
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN141
Date range Dec 1974
• N E Simons, Slips, settlements and sinkholes (University of Surrey inaugural lecture)
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN150
Date range Jan 1977
• Copy of J B Thomas and A W Fisher, ‘St Paul’s Cathedral - Measurements of settlements and movements of the structure’, from unidentified book, pp 221-233
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN139
Date range No date
• Typescript of article by J N Hutchinson, ‘Types of rapid gravitational mass movements and some possible mechanisms’, for CEMAGREF workshop, Grenoble
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN138
Date range Dec 1973
• A Straw, ‘The glacial geomorphology of central and north Norfolk’, The East Midland Geographer, vol 5, part 7, no 39, pp 333-354
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN137
Date range June 1973
• W H Ward & J B Burland, The use of ground strain measurements in civil engineering, Building Research Establishment
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN136
Date range Apr 1973
• Offprint of A C Palmer & J R Rice, ‘The growth of slip surfaces in the progressive failure of over-consolidated clay’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, series A, vol 332, pp 527-548
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN135
Date range 1973
• Offprint of Alan W Bishop, ‘The stability of tips and spoil heaps’, The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, vol 6, nos 3 & 4, pp 335-376
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN134
Date range 1973
• Offprint of A W Bishop, ‘The influence of an undrained change in stress on the pore pressure in porous media of low compressibility’, Géotechnique
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN133
Date range Sept 1973
• Offprint of Norbert R Morgenstern and Milton M de Matos, ‘Stability of slopes in residual soils’, Proceedings of 5th Pan American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, vol 3, Buenos Aires, pp 367-383
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN142
Date range 1975
• Offprint of K T Law and P Lumb, ‘A limit equilibrium analysis of progressive failure in the stability of slopes’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol 15, no 1, pp 113-122
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN158
Date range Feb 1978
• Offprint of E Nonveiller, ‘Efficiency of Horizontal Drains on Slope Stability’, pp 495-500
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN166
Date range 1981
• Offprint of article by N R Morgenstern, ‘Geotechnical engineering and frontier resource development’, Géotechnique, vol 31, no 3, pp 305-365 [21st Rankine Lecture]
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN165
Date range 1981
• Offprint of article by John T Hollin, ‘Climate and sea level in isotope stage 5: an East Antarctic ice surge at ~95,000 BP?’, Nature, vol 283, pp 629-633, sent to Skempton by author
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN164
Date range 14 Feb 1980
• Offprint of J N Hutchinson, E N Bromhead and J F Lupini, ‘Additional observations on the Folkestone Warren landslides’, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology of London, vol 13, pp 1-31
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN163
Date range 1980
• R J N Devoy, ‘Flandrian sea level changes and vegetational history of the lower Thames estuary’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, vol 285, no 1010, pp 355-410, with notes by Skempton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN162
Date range 1979
• Geographical Magazine, vol LI, no 9 - sent to Skempton
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN161
Date range June 1979
• With L Lemos & P R Vaughan, ‘Earthquake loading of shear surfaces in slopes’, Paper submitted to XI International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, San Francisco
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN148
Date range 1985
• S Thomson & R W Tweedie, ‘The Edgerton Landslide’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol 15, no 4, pp 510-521
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN159
Date range 1978
• Offprint of 30th Rankine Lecture given by J B Burland, ‘On the compressibility and shear strength of natural clays’, Géotechique, vol 40, no 3, pp 329-378
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN203
Date range 1990
• Copy of article by P R Vaughan et al, ‘Factors controlling the stability of clay fills in Britain’, Clay fills, pp 205-217
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN157
Date range 1978
• E Watson, ‘The periglacial environment of Great Britain during the Devensian’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, vol 280, pp 183-198
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN156
Date range 1977
• Offprint of A E Insley, P K Chatterji and L B Smith, ‘Use of residual strength for stability analyses of embankment foundations containing preexisting failure surfaces’, Canadian Geotechnic Journal, vol 14, no 3, pp 408-428
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN155
Date range 1977
• Offprint of article by J Rose and J M Letzer, ‘Superimposed drumlins’, Journal of Glaciology, vol 18, no 80, pp 471-479
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN154
Date range 1977
• Offprint of article by John T Hollin, ‘Thames interglacial sites, Ipswichian sea levels and Antarctic ice surges’, Boreas, vol 6, pp 33-52
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN153
Date range 1977
• Offprint of article, J Rose & P Allen, ‘Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy in south-east Suffolk’, Journal of the Geological Society, vol 133, pp 83-102
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN152
Date range Jan 1977
• Robert F Legget, ‘Geology and Geotechnical Engineering’, 13th Terzaghi Lecture, San Francisco
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN151
Date range 1977
• Copy of article by E N Bromhead, ‘A simple ring shear apparatus’, Ground Engineering, vol 12, pp 40-44
Books, articles, etc in which Skempton features in bibliography or which were sent to him
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PBN160
Date range 1979
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