The Bengt B Broms Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering was organised to pay tribute to Professor Broms for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of geotechnical engineering. A number of eminent geotechnical engineers and researchers were invited to contribute to this Symposium. This volume is a compilation of 27 invited papers presented at the Symposium, covering the various aspects of geotechnical engineering, with the main focus on pile foundations, excavation and retaining structure, and soil improvement.
The Republic Plaza in Singapore - foundation design, B.B. Broms and H.P. Lai; restraint on an active landslide by bored piles, A.G. Anagnostopoulos and B.R. Papadopoulos; short and long term behaviour of non-treated and lime or cement-stabilized fly ash, H. Brand; capacities of drilled shafts in sand subjected to overturning and torsion, J.M. Duncan and G.M. Filz; prediction of unsaturated soil functions using the soil-water characteristic curve, D.G. Fredlund; earth pressure in moving soil mass, M. Fukuoka; deep stabilization of soft soils with lime-cement columns, J. Hartlen and G. Holm; retaining walls reinforced with geosynthetics - from Broms (1977, 1978) to the present, R.D. Holtz; the active design concept applied to soil compaction, K.R. Massarsch and E. Westerberg; wave-offshore pipelines-seabed interaction, B. Mazurkiewicz and W. Magda; and other papers.