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• Contents of box files of notes, offprints, etc on ‘GWL’ [groundwater levels]
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)103
Date range 1980s
• Folder of documents from Quaternary field study group visit to Ireland and notes on the Irish pre-glacial platform
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)36
Date range 1968
• Folder of articles, etc on disturbance
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)112
Date range No date
• Envelope containing copies of notes, articles, etc relating to creep ratios
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)111
Date range No date
• MS notes relating to analysis of stress
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)110
Date range No date
• Folder of miscellaneous notes relating to meeting to discuss shear strength parameters, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)109
Date range No date
• File of notes and correspondence relating to leaching
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)108
Date range c. Oct 1958
• Contents of box file: filter theory; permeability; Bou-Hanzifia (Terzaghi); max and min porosity; piping filters - notes, test data, copies of articles, correspondence, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)107
Date range c. June 1988 - c. Oct 1992
• Folder of notes, offprints, etc on grouting
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)106
Date range No date
• Folder of articles, notes, etc on valley bulges
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)114
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, etc: loading tests; Degebo tests; Pope 1975; Darin – Barker 1971; values of Ng and Nq; ultimate bearing capacity
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)104
Date range No date
• Ring binder containing copies of graphs and figures relating to various projects, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)115
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, offprints, test data, etc on internal stability, Tarbela, and gravel-bed rivers
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)102
Date range No date [c Jan 1980]
• Contents of box file of notes labelled ‘Residual’ - relates to various projects, clay, sand-bentonite, movements of landslides, London clay, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)101
Date range No date
• Contents of box file clay, etc (labelled with various symbols): permeability/consolidation; Cromer till (Happisburgh); Wiener Tegel (Klein Belt Ton); London clay; N-C remoulded; Weald clay – offprints, notes, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)100
Date range No date
• Contents of box file on earth dams and slopes: Gothenburg harbour quay failure; Fellenius; Geotech Commission; Westerberg; Coulomb, Wolfman, Prony, Navier & Poncelet; Francais 1820; Garidel; Bell - correspondence, notes, offprints, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)99
Date range Feb 1956 - Jan 1985
• Folder of notes, graphs, etc on deposition water contents
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)98
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on soil moisture movements
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)97
Date range c. May 1995
• Folder of notes, etc on Wraysbury joints
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)96
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc relating to intrinsic line, including offprint of Professor J B Burland’s Rankine Lecture
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)95
Date range Mar 1990
• Copy of letter from Graham Salt to Mike Molineaux concerning predicting rates of movements of landslides, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)94
Date range 1 July 1986
• Folder of notes, offprints, etc on borings
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)105
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, copies, etc on tide tables
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)25
Date range No date
• Contents of two box files labelled ‘Pleistocene’ (mainly offprints of articles)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)1
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on amino acid ratios
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)34
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on interglacial sites
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)33
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on glacial geology of NE Yorkshire
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)32
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, offprints, etc on glaciation
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)31
Date range No date
• Copy notes by Skempton on correlation [two copies]
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)30
Date range Oct 1963
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Irish raised beaches
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)29
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on Gower raised beach and others in Wales
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)28
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc relating to samplers
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)113
Date range c. Mar 1994
• Folder of notes on raised beaches
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)26
Date range No date
• Contents of box file labelled ‘Slopes Mexico 1969’ - paper at soil mechanics conference
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)91
Date range 1969
• Correspondence, slides, notes, plans, reports, etc for Wessex Water
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)124
Date range c. Apr 1961 - c. Feb 1983
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc relating to Newport
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)123
Date range No date
• File of notes and copy article on Dengie Marshes
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)122
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, copies of articles, etc on the Wash and Norfolk Marshes
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)121
Date range No date
• Manuscript notes on Bristol Channel Marshes, mainly tide tables
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)120
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on Lochar Moss
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)119
Date range No date
• Envelope containing notes, plans, etc, with covering letter to Skempton from Halcrow [consulting engineers] relating to Blaina landslides (East Pentwyn), 5th International Symposium
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)118
Date range 25 Aug 1988
• Copy of article by T C Atkinson, K R Briffa & G R Coope, ‘Seasonal temperatures in Britain during the past 22,000 years, reconstructed using beetle remains’, Nature, vol 325, pp 587-592, with notes by Skempton
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)117
Date range 12 Feb 1987
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on Devensian temperature, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)116
Date range No date [c June 1975]
• Folder of notes, articles, etc, mainly on raised beaches but includes other related subjects
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)27
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc, labelled ‘Geology map work’, City & Guilds
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)11
Date range 1935
• Notes, offprints, etc on deep-sea cores
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)21
Date range No date
• Notes, offprints, etc on deep-sea cores
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)20
Date range No date
• File of notes, etc on corals
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)19
Date range No date
• Papers relating to seminar on the Middle Pleistocene project at Boxgrove
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)18
Date range May 1987
• Folder of notes, copies of articles, etc on European loess
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)17
Date range No date
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Soils Stabilization box 1’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)16
Date range No date
• Contents of transfer case of notes, etc, labelled ‘Consolidation - laboratory and theory’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)15
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on consolidation
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)14
Date range No date
• Contents of box file labelled ‘Landslides (general)’ offprints, copies of articles, test data, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)93
Date range 1960s
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Compaction – localities’ (articles, notes)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)12
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on sea levels
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)24
Date range No date
• Notes and articles on geology
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)10
Date range No date
• File of correspondence, notes, etc on fossils
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)9
Date range c. Apr 1975 - c. July 1989
• Folder of notes on archaeology
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)8
Date range No date
• File of notes, etc on post-glacial 14C dates & archaeology, and pollen zones
Research, soil mechanics

Includes Sir Harry Goodwin & Vishnu-Mittre, ‘Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, vol 270, no 909, June 1975, pp 561-608

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)7
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Villafranchian, Pliocene and Miocene
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)6
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc relating to Pleistocene - non-glaciated regions (Italy)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)5
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, correspondence, etc on Pleistocene (general)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)4
Date range c. Aug 1958
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Irish Pleistocene
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)3
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Britain Pleistocene (general)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)2
Date range no date
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Consolidation = Compaction’, containing mainly articles
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)13
Date range No date
• Notes on London clay, R J Jardine, ‘Investigations of pile-soil behaviour, with special reference to the foundations of offshore structures’, PhD thesis, Imperial College, 1985, copy of geotechnical report on Angel underground station, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)80
Date range c. Sept 1979 - c. Aug 1989
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Europe (glacial regions)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)37
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, etc on slopes (BRS notes)
Research, soil mechanics

Drainage of slopes and counterforts; Sevenoaks slip; an experimental study of the angle of repose; Folkestone Warren; torsion cracks; grass, shrubs, etc; Panama Canal; slopes in sand – notes, reports, test data, photographs, etc

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)90
Date range c. Aug 1938 - c. Oct 1945
• Folder of notes, etc on slopes – Maine (?) conference
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)89
Date range No date
• Loose notes, test data, figures, etc on clay
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)88
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on slope stability
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)87
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc entitled ‘Bishop or Morgenstern’ (earth slopes)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)86
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, drawings, etc on clay
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)85
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on London clay (back analysis)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)84
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on London clay strength reductions
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)83
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Holocene sea-levels
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)22
Date range No date
• ‘Note on Strength of Clay Bedrock for discussion in London - Dec ‘83’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)81
Date range Dec 1983
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on the North Sea
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)23
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, black and white photographs, etc on landslips, etc (various London locations)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)79
Date range No date
• Manuscript notes on London clay (back analysis)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)78
Date range No date
• Manuscript notes on London clay properties
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)77
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, offprints, test data, etc on London clay slips (foundation engineering)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)76
Date range No date
• Folder of notes on brown London clay large diameter tests
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)75
Date range No date
• Box file of notes, etc on London clay and lias slopes
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)74
Date range No date
• Contents of box file on London clay slopes: stability of slopes and retaining walls; stiff-fissured clays; Kensal Green; Walthamstow; Mill Lane; Piccadilly Line cutting, Uxbridge; Park Village East; Sydenham Hill - notes, figures, test data, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)73
Date range c. Feb 1942 - c. Apr 1965
• Folder of notes labelled ‘MacFarlane & Allen 1965’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)72
Date range No date
• Contents of two box files labelled ‘Landslides in clay’ – offprints, articles, correspondence, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)92
Date range Mar 1962 - Jan 1972
• Manuscript relating to slips in London clay cuttings
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)82
Date range No date
• NUMBER NOT USED
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)145
• Folder entitled ‘R R Proctor. Fundamental principles of soil compactions E.N.R. [Engineering News-Record] 1933’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)35
Date range No date [1933]
• Folder of notes, correspondence, copies of articles, etc on long range dates
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)154
Date range Sept 1966 - Oct 1966
• Folder of notes on permeability
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)153
Date range No date
• Folder containing various articles
Research, soil mechanics

Synopsis of article by N Birch, ‘Some field observations of engineering properties’, nd (typescript); programme for conference on geology and engineering properties of Keuper Marl, University of Birmingham, July 1967; typescript of J A Morton & G H Thomson, ‘Geology and engineering properties of Keuper Marl. Practical problems in commercial site investigation’, Geological Society of London Engineering Group, nd; Charles Scott Dunn & Boniface Chukwukadibia Akabogu, ‘Some engineering properties of cement stabilized Keuper Marl with particular reference to rapid and repeated compression tests’, Geological Society of London Engineering Group, nd; typescript of E G Poole, ‘The Keuper Marl of the Midlands and Shropshire – Cheshire Basin, nd + figures and plates; J Kolbuszewski, Introduction to conference on geology and engineering properties of Keuper Marl, Birmingham, July 1967; Allen George Davis, ‘The structure of Keuper Marl’, nd; plan of Birmingham University campus, marked with locations; F W Shotton, ‘The Keuper Marl of the midlands – a general review’; R J Chandler, ‘Some aspects of the influence of weathering on the shear strength of Keuper Marl; A J Thomasson, ‘Soils developed on Keuper Marl’; graph [papers from conference]

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)152
Date range c. July 1967
• Folder of notes on Drying and Ignition temperatures
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)151
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on oedometric tests, various sites
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)150
Date range No date
• Folder of notes labelled ‘Deg Escape’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)149
Date range No date
• Manuscript notes and case records by Skempton on exit gradient, revised
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)148
Date range Oct 1991
• Folder of notes, copies of articles, etc on rainfall and evaporation
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)156
Date range No date
• Folder - Feustel & Byers 1930 (article on American peat) and papers by other authors
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)146
Date range 1930
• MS - ‘case records’ [may not be complete]
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)157
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on MIT, Harvard & Vienna
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)144
Date range 1926 - 1936
• File of notes, articles, etc on America
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)143
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Morocco and Mediterranean
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)142
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, drawings and copies of articles on Holland, Denmark and north Germany
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)141
Date range No date
• Internal report of a Société d’énergie de la Baie James Committee on the sensitive clays of the NBR Hydroelectric Compex, with covering letter from J-Jacques Paré to Skempton, Montreal, Canada
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)140
Date range 7 Feb 1985
• Folder of notes, notebooks, drawings, articles, etc on Renvyle Point (Ireland)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)139
Date range June 1969
• Folder of notes, etc on Irish tills
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)138
Date range June 1969 - July 1969
• Folder of notes, etc on Mucking test site (Thames)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)137
Date range No date
• Notes on water content, ignition loss, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)136
Date range No date
• Notes on boreholes in Australia and Japan
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)147
Date range No date
• Contents of lever arch file, history of foundations: biography
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)167
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Leffe (Italy)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)177
Date range No date
• Contents of box file on soil mechanics 1726 - 1926
Research, soil mechanics

Values straight from computer (uncorrected) standard-consistent test system; Khosla et al 1936; Manual on barrages and weirs on permeable foundation, Oct 1985; Narora Weir; typescript of ‘Theory of the stability of foundations on sand and soil subject to hydrostatic pressure; weirs on permeable foundations; permeability tests; Darcy/Dupuit; Richardson 1908

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)176
Date range c. Oct 1912 - c. Mar 1992
• Folder of notes on soil mechanics history book, with letters from publisher declining to publish it
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)175
Date range Mar 1996 - Apr 1996
• Typescript (top copy) of Skempton’s history of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)174
Date range July 1989
• MS notes on Terzaghi’s presidential address to 1st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)173
Date range No date
• Folder of notes and copy of article on early soil mechanics
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)172
Date range No date
• Three ring binders of typescript notes for a history of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)171
Date range July 1989
• File of correspondence and notes relating to survey on teaching of soil mechanics in British universities before 1950, for talk
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)170
Date range Oct 1974 - Dec 1974
• No date
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)155
• Contents of box file of notes on history of earth pressure
Research, soil mechanics

Copies of articles; earth pressure tests; values of K; Résal 1910; angle of repose, angle of friction; correspondence; abstracts of earth pressure tests; history of earth pressure; Belidor 1729; Scheffer 1851; etc

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)168
Date range No date
• File relating to locked sands, including in Hampshire basin – offprints, etc and letter
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)133
Date range 30 Apr 1982
• Contents of box file on structural origins
Research, soil mechanics

Report on the validity of pile driving formulae in sands and gravels; copy of ‘Minutes of Conversation Ordinary Meeting 13th May 1828’; copies of articles; Baussimesq 1885; Winkler/Zimmermann; pile formulae - notes, offprints, correspondence, etc

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)166
Date range c. July 1947 - c. Aug 1986
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Misc notes’
Research, soil mechanics

Special report (history of soil mechanics); miscellaneous research notes; surface stability of slopes; MS of book; examples of wall failures; theory of stability analysis; earth pressure observations; abutments of road bridges; centre of pressure; timbered cuts in clay - notes, reports, photographs, diagrams, etc

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)165
Date range c. Mar 1950 - c. Jan 1953
• Contents of transfer case of notes, etc labelled ‘Abstracts’
Research, soil mechanics

Theories of stress; ‘über die festigkeitseigenschaften gestörter bindiger boden’ by M J Hvorslev, 1937; Althorne - Burnham-on-Crouch railway embankment; ‘Some theoretical considerations on the One-Dimensional Consolidation of Clay’ by W Merchant, 1939; Drammen; coastal flooding; cone tests by I K Nixon; general soil physics; compaction of sediments; miscellaneous - articles, notes, reports, photographs, etc

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)164
Date range c. June 1929 - c. May 1953
• ‘Summer 1958 surface characteristics’ (2 bundles)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)163
Date range c. 1958
• Diver Shoal Laboratory Test Results [for Port of London Authority]
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)162
Date range Jan 1995
• Borehole tests, diver shoal, for Port of London Authority
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)161
Date range Oct 1994 - Nov 1994
• File labelled ‘ru’ - notes, articles, test data, etc relating to clay, earth slopes, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)160
Date range No date
• Letter from Peter Vaughan to Ray Coxon with details of finite element analyses
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)159
Date range 17 Sept 1985
• Two folders of notes on mathematical form
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)158
Date range No date
• MS notes relating to Erdbaumechanik (Terzaghi)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)169
Date range 1925
• Folder of notes, etc on peat (miscellaneous papers)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)47
Date range No date
• Typescript report: A survey of some British peats and their strength characteristics, with letter, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)57
Date range Apr 1955 - Aug 1955
• File of notes, correspondence, etc relating to ignition loss of peat
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)56
Date range c. Sept 1969
• File of notes, etc on ground water levels in peat deposits
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)55
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on peat correlations paper
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)54
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, field data, etc on ignition loss, liquid limit and water content (peat)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)53
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on peat – lab results, ignition loss, etc
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)52
Date range No date
• Folder of notes on water content of air-dried peats and coals
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)51
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, correspondence, lab data and calculations relating peat compaction
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)50
Date range Aug 1956 - Aug 1969
• Various reports
Research, soil mechanics

Typescript report on site investigation of paint factory for Messrs Danos Enterprises Ltd at Newport (Monmouthshire) by Richard Costain Ltd; AGIP Ltd, proposed storage depot at Newport Docks; report on site investigation on Severn Estuary - Portskewett, for Central Electricity Generating Board by Foundation Engineering Ltd; report on site investigation of proposed new main sewer, Weston-super-Mare, by Richard Costain Ltd

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)135
Date range Nov 1955 - Oct 1964
• Folder of notes, etc on S G of Peats
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)48
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on Bearpaw shale (Peterson)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)60
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, correspondence, etc on peat (summary)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)46
Date range No date [c Oct 1995]
• Folder of notes, test data, etc relating to peat
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)45
Date range No date
• Folder of correspondence, notes, etc on peat
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)44
Date range No date
• Booklet (of Skempton) of MS notes on shear resistance of soils and methods of testing, (with loose inserts)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)43
Date range No date
• Envelope containing notes, copies of articles, etc relating to chalk slopes
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)42
Date range No date
• File relating to elevation of interglacial deposits (summary)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)41
Date range No date
• Folder of notes on organic content
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)40
Date range No date
• Two bundles of notes, articles, etc on soils
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)39
Date range No date
• Folder of MS notes on simplified tests
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)38
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, articles, etc on peat – classification, stratigraphy, chemistry
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)49
Date range No date
• Envelope of ‘Equilibrium’ shear tests
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)69
Date range No date
• Loose items relating to soil mechanics [may have become separated from files]
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)178
Date range 1960s - 1970s
• Folder of correspondence, notes, etc on West Runton
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)132
Date range Oct 1995 - Apr 1996
• Folder of notes, articles, correspondence, etc on River Medway terraces
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)131
Date range c. May 1975 - c. June 1975
• Folder of notes, etc on Crayford Ness
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)130
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on Scrapsgate (Isle of Sheppey, Kent)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)129
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on Littlebrook (Thames)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)128
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on Long Reach (Thames)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)127
Date range No date
• Part of Great Yarmouth Geotechnical Data Study for Anglian Water Authority [British Geological Survey]. Part 1: drift geology, nd; Part 2: geotechnical evaluation
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)126
Date range Apr 1989
• Folder of notes, correspondence, etc on Essex Marshes
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)125
Date range c. Jan 1996
• Contents of box file of notes, correspondence, etc relating to piping tests and internal stability
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)58
Date range July 1989 - June 1995
• Folder of notes on strain softening and pre-existing shears
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)70
Date range No date
• Notebook, Grangemouth
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)59
Date range No date
• Contents of box file on history of shear strength and Atterberg
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)68
Date range c. Feb 1981
• Folder of notes, etc on Lough Fee (shear zones)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)67
Date range No date
• Folder containing notes, etc on slip surfaces in simple she
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)66
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, etc on Riedel Shears
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)65
Date range No date
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Triaxial tests etc on rocks’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)64
Date range No date
• Contents of box file, shear strength tests box 2
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)63
Date range No date
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Triaxial tests etc on rocks’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)62
Date range No date
• Contents of transfer case labelled ‘Settlement notes’
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)61
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, copies of articles, drawings, negatives, etc on jointing and structure, East Yorkshire
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)134
Date range No date
• File of notes, etc relating to Siwalik (thickness of strata)
Research, soil mechanics
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(SME)71
Date range No date
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