DISCUSSION: CONVENTIONAL RETAINING WALLS: PILOT AND FULL-SCALE STUDIES.

Discussion engineering ground goup conventional retaining wallspilot and full-scale: studies I. F. Symons and R.T. Murray Mr Symons and Dr Murray A main objective of the most recent pilot-scale investigation was to examine the pressures developed during swelling of London clayfill. This phase of the study,I5 which extended over 20 months was incomplete at the time of preparation of the Paper. 41. It was appreciated that London clay would take many years to swell if wetted only from its upper surface...