Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
BUILDING RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD Officers and Members 1962-63 OFFICERS RICHARD H. TATLOW Ill, Chairman A. ALLAN BATES, Vice Chairman ROBINSON NEWCOMB, Vice Chairman ROBERT M. DILLON, Executive Director MEMBERS FREDERICK M. BABCOCK, ApPTaiser, Frederick M. Babcock and Company, Wash ington, D. C. MAX BARTH, Chief, Technical Division, Directorate of Construction, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, Washington, D. C. A. ALLAN BATES, Chief, Building Research Division, National Bureau of Stand ards, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. GLENN H. BEYER, Director, Center for Housing and Environmental Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ALAN E. BROCKBANK, President, Alan E. Brockbank Organization, Salt Lake City, Utah WALTER E. CAMPBELL, F AlA, Partner, Campbell and Aldrich, Architects, Boston, Massachusetts ALBERT G. H. DIETZ, Professor of Building Engineering, Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts WILLIAM GILLETT, William Gillett Associates, Detroit, Michigan PETER B. GoRDON, Vice President, Wolff and Munier, Inc., New York, N. Y. IRA H. HARDIN, President, Ira H. Hardin Company, Atlanta, Georgia RAYMON H. HARRELL, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Lumber Dealers Research Council, Washington, D. C. HAROLD D. HAUF, Vice President, Charles Luckman Associates, Los Angeles, California MALCOLM C. HOPE, Assistant Chief, Division of Environmental Engineering and Food Protection, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. ALFRED L. JAROS, JR., Principal Partner, Jaros, Baum and Bolles, New York, N.Y. JAMES T. LENDRUM, Head, Department of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida ROBERT W. LoNG, President and Managing Partner, Long Construction Company, Kansas City, Missouri WILLIAM J. MURPHY, J. L. Murphy, Inc., New York, N. Y. ROBINSON NEWCOMB, Consulting Economist, Robinson Newcomb Associates, Wash ington, D. C. JOHN S. PARKINSON, Director of General Research and New Business Develop ment, Johns-Manville Products Corporation, Manville, New Jersey DOUGLAS E. PARSONS, Consultant to the Director, National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. JOHN A. ROBERTSON, Director of Technical Services, Washington, United States Gypsum Company, Arlington, Virginia J. DONALD RoLLINS, President, American Bridge Division, United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PHILIP C. RUTLEDGE, Partner-Consulting Engineer, Moran, Proctor, Mueser and Rutledge, New York, N.Y. MORTON J. SCHUSSHEIM, Assistant Administrator for Program Policy, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D. C. RICHARD H. TATLOW III, President, Abbott, Merkt and Company, New York, N.Y. ROBERT B. TAYLOR, Director, Structural Clay Products Research Foundation, Geneva, Illinois MAX WEHRLY, Executive Director, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D. C. ERNEST WEISSMANN, Assistant Director, Bureau of Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, N. Y. THOMAS E. WERKEMA, Program Manager, Construction Materials, Plastics De partment, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan HARRY B. ZACKRISON, SR., Chief, Engineering Division, Military Construction, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Washington, D. C.
L�RITERIA FOR HYDRAULIC FILLS Report No. 25 to the FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION by the f ⢠··� : BUILDING RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD ' ' Division of Engineering and Industrial Research June 1.4, 1962 Publication 1076 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES- NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON, D. C. 1962
The National Academy of Seienees was granted permiuion to publish this report by the Federal Housing Administration This report has been prepared under FHA Contract No. HA (-) fh-743, and may not be reprinted or quoted extensively without the permission of the Federal Housing Administration and the National Academy of Sciences. This permission is not required for agencies within the United States Government. A 11Gil4ble from the Printing and Publishing Office National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council 2101 Constitution A venue Washington, D. C. Priee f2.50 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-60016
SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMinEE on CRITERIA FOR HYDRAULIC FILLS GEORGE F. SOWERS, Chairman Professor of Civil Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia MA YLIN H. GREASER, President, American Dredging Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MARTIN S. KAPP, Soils and Foundation Engineer, Port of New York Authority, New York. BRUCE D. McCREARY, Partner, McCreary-Koretsky Engineers, San Francisco, California. P. H. McGAUHEY, Director, Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory, University of California, Richmond, California. PAUL SHEA, District Geologist, U. S. Army Engineers, Jacksonville, Florida. BRAB SUPPORTING STAFF I. PERRY CLARK, JR., Senior Staff Engineer RAYMOND R. FOX, Professional Associate S. W. LIPSMAN, Associate Editor iii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Th i s repor t represents t he consens us of t he Bu i l d i n g Research Adv i s ory Board Spec i a l Adv i s ory Comm i t tee on Cr i ter i a for Hyd rau l i c F i l l s . Th i s Comm i t tee was composed of recogn i zed a u t hor i t i es on var i ous techn i ca l a s pects of the prob l em , who , a t the reques t of t he Na t i ona l Aca demy of Sc i ences , gave free l y of the i r t i me , know l edge , and effor t on beha l f of t he advancemen t of bu i l d i ng techno l ogy . B RAB apprec i a tes t he con tr i but i on they have made and takes th i s oppor tun i ty to acknow l edge the i r efforts w i t h gra t i tude . I n add i tion , t he Boa rd t hanks a l l who gave a s s i s tance to the Comm i t tee through e i t her corres pondence or persona l contact . � - � $�� #�. c2<��-J:_- HARRY ⢠ZA I SON , SR . , C hatrman B u i l tng Re ea rch Adv i s ory Board i v
