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GL0047-Slope Stability
2003, U.S.Army engineer manual, 205 Pages

GL0048-Earth manual, Part 1
1990, Third Edition, The United States Bureau of Reclamation manual, 311 pages

GL0107-Use of Geotextiles under Riprap
1984, U.S.Army engineer technical letter, 8 Pages

GL0108-Earth & Rock-Fill Dams General Design & Construction Considerations
1994, U.S.Army engineer manual, 77 Pages

GL0115-Design Procedures for Plastic Concrete Cutoff Walls
1992, REMR Technical Note, Waterways Experiment Station Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Vicksburg, Mississippi, 7 Pages, 536 KB pdf

GL0116-Standard Practice for Shotcrete
1993, U.S.Army engineer manual, 63 Pages

GL0117-Roller-Compacted Concrete
2000, U.S.Army engineer manual, 77 Pages

GL0118-Test Quarries and Test Fills
1994, U.S.Army engineer manual, 94 Pages

GL0123-Conduits, Culverts and Pipes
1998, U.S.Army engineer manual, 85 Pages

GL0124-Design and Construction of Grouted Riprap
1992, U.S.Army engineer technical letter, 9 Pages

GL0125-Design, Construction and Maintenance of Relief Wells
1992, U.S.Army engineer manual, 91 Pages

GL0128-Case History of Dam Repair: Remedial Waterstops
1982, Concrete Structures Repair and Rehabilitation, Vol C-82-1, US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, 7 Pages, 48 KB pdf

GL0208-Soil-Bentonite Cutoff Walls: Hydraulic Conductivity and Contaminant Transport
2001, Britton, Jeremy Paul, PhD thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

GL0218-Liquefaction and dam failures
2000, B. Mubnmthan and A.N.Schofield, CUED/D-SOILSITR310, Paper submitted for ASC Conference GeoDenver 2000, 30 Pages

GL0247-Settlements and shear strength increase below embankments
2003, Rolf Larsson, Hakan Mattsson, Swedish geotechnical institute, 98 Pages, 2.77 MB pdf

GL0501-Assessment of Granular Filter Functioning in Embankment Dams
2004, S. Shahab Yasrobi and Ali Azad, Eurosoil 2004 congress, 4-12 September 2004, Freiburg, Germany, 8 Pages, 347 KB pdf

GL0908-Earth Dams and Reservoirs (Revised July 2005)
2005, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Technical Release 60

GL0939-Liquefaction and dam failures
1999, B Muhunthan and A N Schofield, Cambridge University Engineering Department Technical Report

GL1046-Optimization of dam construction costs using genetic algorithms
2003, Marcos M. Silvoso, Eduardo M. R. Fairbairn, Romildo D. Tolêdo Filho, Nelson F. F. Ebecken, José L. D. Alves, 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 16-18 2003, University of Washington, Seattle

GL1145-Embankment Dams and Earthquakes
2004, M. Seid-Karbasi & P.M. Byrne, Journal of Hydropower & Dams,  V. 11 No. 2 pp. 96-102.

GL1209-Use of Geosynthetics in Dams
1991, W. R. Morrison, E.W. Gray Jr., M Cyganiewicz and P. G. Grey, Eleventh Annual USCOLD Lecture Series, White Plains, New York April 1991

GL1326-Measured and predicted pore pressures in earth dams
1980, Matthews, Gregory Paul, MS thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

GL1950-COMPACTION AND SETTLEMENT OF EXISTING EMBANKMENTS
2001, Robert L. Parsons, Derek H. Foster and Stephen A. Cross, A Report on Research Sponsored By THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 158 Pages

GL1998-Guide to Earthwork Construction
1990, Full text book, Transportation Research Board (TRB) State of the Art Report 8, 119 Pages

GL2246-The Failure of Teton Dam - A New Theory Based on State Based Soil Mechanics
2003, Navaratnarajah Sasiharan, MS thesis, Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering


GL0109-Gravity Dam Design
1995, U.S.Army engineer manual, 88 Pages

GL0110-Arch Dam Design
1994, U.S.Army engineer manual, 238 Pages

GL0113-Design & Construction of Levees
2000, U.S.Army engineer manual, 164 Pages

GL0120-Structural Design Using the Roller-Compacted Concrete (RCC) Construction Process
1993, U.S.Army engineer technical letter, 25 Pages

GL0877-Soil Engineering Gradation Design of Sand and Gravel Filters
1994, National Engineering Handbook, Chapter 26, United States Department of Agriculture, 47 Pages, 212 KB pdf

GL0886-Soil Mechanics Considerations for Embankment Drains
1971, United States Department of Agriculture, 70 Pages, 2.92MB pdf

GL0904-Earth Spillway Design
1997, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Part 628, Chapter 50

GL0907-A Guide for Design and Layout of Vegetative Wave Protection for Earth Dam Embankments
1974, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Technical Release 56


GL0111-Construction With Large Stone
1990, U.S.Army engineer manual, 60 Pages

GL0112-Construction Control for Earth & Rock-Fill Dams
1995, U.S.Army engineer manual, 100 Pages

GL0878-Laboratory and Field Test Procedures for Control of Density and Moisture of Compacted Earth Embankment
1965, United States Department of Agriculture, 30 Pages, 1.18MB pdf

GL0879-The Use of Soils Containing More Than 5 Percent Rock Larger Than the No.4 Sieve
1964, United States Department of Agriculture, 22 Pages, 914KB pdf


GL0114-Seepage Analysis and Control for Dams
1993, U.S.Army engineer manual, 389 Pages

GL0126-Prediction of the compactness of roller-compacted concrete using a granular packing model
2001, Nadia Pouliot, François de Larrard, Thierry Sedran and Jacques Marchand, Bulletin des Laboratoires des Ponts et Chaussées 233

GL0159-Solving Tailings Impoundment Water Balance Problems With 3D Seepage Software
2001, Rykaart M., Fredlund M., and Stianson J., Geotechnical News Magazine, Bitech Publishers Vancouver, B.C. Canada December Issue, 5 Pages

GL0586-Embankments with base reinforcement on soft clay
1994, Bolton M.D., Sharma J., Proc. International Conference Centrifuge 94, Singapore, 587-592, 620 KB pdf

GL0815-Analysis of Unreinforced and Reinforced Embankments on Soft Clays by Plasticity Theory
1988, Houlsby, G.T. and Jewell, R.A., Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Innsbruck, April, Vol. 2, ISBN 90-6191-811-1, pp 1443-1448, 1529KB pdf

GL0882-Flow Net Construction and Use
1973, United States Department of Agriculture, 50 Pages, 2.28MB pdf

GL0888-The Mechanics of Seepage Analysis
1979, United States Department of Agriculture, 44 Pages, 1.57MB pdf

GL0905-Earth Spillway Erosion Model
1997, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Part 628, Chapter 52

GL0927-Seismic modelling of embankments on saturated soil deposits
1996, L M N Peiris, S P G Madabhushi and A N Schofield, Cambridge University Engineering Department Technical Report

GL0933-Modelling of embankment construction on soft clay in the Mk II mini-drum centrifuge
1997, H R Barker, N Sartain, A N Schofield and K Soga, Cambridge University Engineering Department Technical Report

GL0958-Viscoplastic modelling of embankments on soft soils
2005, Manivannan, Ganeshalingam, PhD thesis, University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy, 227 Pages

GL0969-Numerical modelling of a centrifuged embankment on soft clay
1985, ALMEIDA, M.S.S, A. M. BRITTO, A.M and PARRY, R.H.G, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 23, pp 103-114, 2363KB pdf

GL0972-Performance of test embankment constructed to failure on soft marine clay
1992, Indraratna, B., Balasubramaniam, A.S., Balachandran, S., Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 118, No.1, January 1992, 22 Pages, 3580KB pdf

GL0974-Some techniques for finite element analysis of embankments on soft ground
1993, CHAI, J.C and BERGADO, D.T., Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 30, pp 710-719, 1634KB pdf

GL0977-Mechanical Behavior of Soil-Bentonite Cutoff Walls
2000, Baxter, Diane Yamane, PhD theis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 367 Pages

GL1137-A Simple Model For Estimating End Of Construction Pore Pressures: Part 1 - Foundation Pore Pressures - Example Problem 1 - Example Problem 2
2001, Kerkes, D. J., 19 Pages, 322 KB pdf

GL1138-A Simple Model For Estimating End Of Construction Pore Pressures: Part 2 - Embankment Pore Pressures - Example Problem 1 - Example Problem 2
2004, Kerkes, D. J., 21 Pages, 351 KB pdf

GL1756-Numerical simulation of dynamic behaviour of an earthdam during seismic loading
1993, Daghigh, Y., PhD thesis, Delft university, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences

GL1911-A practical method for solving free-surface seepage problems
2002, Bardet, J. P., and T. Tobita, Computer and Geotechnics, in press.


GL0119-Instrumentation of Embankment Dams and Levees
1995, U.S.Army engineer manual, 83 Pages

GL0121-Instrumentation for Concrete Structure
1987, U.S.Army engineer manual, 305 Pages

GL0122-Strong-motion instruments for recording earthquake motions on dams
1981, U.S.Army engineer regulation, 11 Pages

GL0127-Time Lag & Soil Permeability in Ground-Water Observations
1951, Bulletin NO. 36, Waterways Experiment Station Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Vicksburg, Mississippi, 57 Pages, 2.47 MB pdf

GL0377-Continuous strain monitoring in the rock foundation of a large gravity dam
1983, Kovari, Kalman, Peter, Guy, Rock Mech., Rock Engng., 16/3, 15.53 MB pdf

GL0383-Detection and monitoring of structural deficiences in the rock foundation of large dams
1985, Kovari, Kalman, 15th Int. Congr. Large Dams ICOLD, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2.34 MB pdf

GL1834-Seepage monitoring in embankment dams
1997, Johansson, Sam, PhD thesis, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, KTH, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

GL1900-Performance of San Fernando Dams during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake
1996, Bardet, J. P., and C. Davis, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 122, No. 7, pp. 554-564.

GL1901-Performance of Two Reservoirs during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake
1996, Davis, C., and J. P. Bardet, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 122, No. 8, pp. 613-622.


GL0781-Slurries in Geotechnical Engineering
2004, Raymond Krizek, The Twelfth Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture, 75 Pages, 3.33 MB pdf

GL0881-Dispersive Clays
1991, United States Department of Agriculture, 32 Pages, 4.86MB pdf

GL0884-Permeability of Selected Clean Sands and Gravels
1984, United States Department of Agriculture, 34 Pages, 971KB pdf

GL0906-Field Procedure Guide for the Headcut Erodibility Index
2001, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Part 628, Chapter 52

GL0909-Riprap for Slope Protection Against Wave Action
1983, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Technical Release 69

GL0910-Riprap Lined Plunge Pool for Cantilever Outlet (Second Edition)
1986, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Design Note 6

GL0911-Scour Protection at Base of Risers to Drop Inlet Spillways
1967, United States Department of Agriculture, National Engineering Handbook, Design Note 1

GL0985-Earth Dams on Liquefiable Foundation: Numerical Prediction of Centrifuge Experiments
2004, Z. Yang, A. Elgamal, K. Adalier, and M. Sharp, J. Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 130(10), 1168-1176.

GL1121-EFFECT OF RIGID CONTAINER SIZE ON DYNAMIC EARTH DAM RESPONSE IN CENTRIFUGE EXPERIMENTS
2003, Ahmed Elgamal, Zhaohui Yang, Korhan Adalier, Michael Sharp, 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 16-18 2003, University of Washington, Seattle

GL1127-Dam-Reservoir Interaction Including the Reservoir Bottom Effects In Time Domain
2003, Semih Kucukarslan, 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 16-18 2003, University of Washington, Seattle

GL1128-Dam-Reservoir Interaction for Incompressible-Unbounded Fluid Domains Using An Exact Truncation Boundary Condition
2003, Semih Kucukarslan, 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 16-18 2003, University of Washington, Seattle

GL1178-Liquefaction Evaluation for Rio Blanco Offstream Dam. Comparison between Existenting Methodologies.
2003, Fernandez, A.L. and Crumley A.R., 12th Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, June 2003.

GL1184-Extreme hydraulic gradient statistics in a stochastic earth dam
1997, Fenton, G.A., and Griffiths, D.V., ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 123(11), 995-1000

GL1185-Statistics of free surface flow through stochastic earth dam
1996, Fenton, G.A., and Griffiths, D.V., ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 122(6), 427-436

GL1200-Flow through earthdams with spatially random permeability
1995, Fenton, G.A., and Griffiths, D.V., Proceedings of the 10th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 341--344, May 1995

GL1206-Problems of Friction Posed by the Use of Geomembranes on Dam Slopes - Examples and Measurements
1990, H. Girard, S. Fischer and E. Alonso, Geotextiles and Geomembranes 9 (1990) 129-143

GL1207-The Causes of the 198 1 Slide in San Luis Dam
1989, James Michael Duncan, Timothy D. Stark, Twenty-seventh Henry M. Shaw Lecture in Civil engineering, 35 Pages

GL1208-The Geomembrane Liner at Terzaghi Dam
0000, LACROIX, YVES, International Conference on Geomembranes Denver, U.S.A.

GL1290-Behavior of embankments on New York varved clay.
1974, Leathers, Francis Dopp, MS thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

GL1292-A case study on the performance of embankments on treated soft ground
2003, Batista, Isabella Santini, MS thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

GL1341-Stability of an embankment on a partially consolidated foundation : Interstate 95.
1975, Silva-Tulla, Francisco, MS thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

GL1543-Construction of a tire-shred test embankment
2004, Salgado, R. and Prezzi, M., Engineering Sustainability Journal, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 157, Issue ES2, pp.65-66.

GL1985-Time-dependent deformation in high concrete-faced rockfill dam and separation between concrete face slab and cushion layer
2004, Zhang By, Wang JG, Shi RF, Computers and Geotechnics, 2004, 31(7):559-573 

GL2243-Embankment Dams in Earth Fissure Risk Zones-a Regulator's Dilemma
2005, Murthy, Ravi and Benoist, Jon M., ASDSO Annual Conference (22nd). 2005. Orlando, Florida, Association of State Dam Safety Officials


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