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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor | United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers | - |
| dc.contributor.author | U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-15T14:35:32Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-15T14:35:32Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 1953-03 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/21359 | - |
| dc.description | Technical memorandum | - |
| dc.description | Preface: The purpose of this manual is to describe and explain the use of the "Unified Soil Classification System" in order that identification of soil types will be on a common basis throughout the agencies using this system. The program of military airfield construction undertaken by the Department of the Army in 1941 revealed at an early stage that existing soil classifications were not entirely applicable to the work involved. In 1942 the Corps of Engineers tentatively adopted the "Airfield Classification" of soils which had been developed by Dr. Arthur Casagrande of the Harvard University Graduate School of Engineering. As a result of experience gained since that time, the original classification has been expanded and revised in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation so that it applies not only to airfields but also to embankments, foundations, and other engineering features. Acknowledgment is made to Dr. Arthur Casagrande, Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Harvard University, for permission to incorporate in this manual considerable information from the paper "Classification and Identification of Soils" published in Transactions, American Society of Civil Engineers, volume 113, 1948. This manual was prepared under the direction of the Office, Chief of Engineers, by the Soils Division, Waterways Experiment Station. | - |
| dc.publisher | U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station. | - |
| dc.publisher | Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) | - |
| dc.relation | http://acwc.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/1049711 | - |
| dc.rights | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. | - |
| dc.source | This Digital Resource was created from scans of the Print Resource. | - |
| dc.subject | Soil classification | - |
| dc.subject | Soils | - |
| dc.subject | Embankments | - |
| dc.subject | Foundations | - |
| dc.title | The unified soil classification system. Volume 1 | - |
| dc.type | Report | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Technical Memorandum | |
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| WES-Technical-Memorandum-No.3-357-Volume-1.pdf | 1.64 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |