TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD 87 2 Centrifuge-Soil Testing, Soil Mechanics, and I Soil Properties I 001411671 Transportation Research Record Issue : 872 - I ~IT:ITT TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES I 1982 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers DARRELL V MANNING, Chairman LAWRENCE D. DAHMS, Vice Chairman THOMAS B. DEEN, Executive Director Members RAY A. BARNHART, JR., Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation (ex officio) FRANCIS B. FRANCOIS, Executive Director, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (ex officio) WILLIAM J. HARRIS, JR., Vice President, Research and Test Department, Association of American Railroads (ex officio) J. LYNN HELMS, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation (ex officio) THOMAS D. LARSON, Secretary of Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (ex officio, Past Chairman, 1981) RAYMOND A. 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Hughes Ill, Virginia Highway and Transportation Re- subject area search Council, chairman 63 soil and rock mechanics Committee on Mineral Aggregates Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data T. Paul Teng, Federal Highway Administration, chairman National Research Council. Transportation Research Board. Grant J. Allen, David A . Anderson, Gordon W. Beecroft, Robert Centrifuge-soil testing, soil mechanics, and soil properties. J. Collins, Sabir H. Dahir, Stephen W. Forster, Richard D. Gaynor, David L. Gress, Donn E. Hancher, Robert F. Hinshaw, William W. (Transportation research record; 872) Hotaling, Jr., Eugene Y. Huang, Richard C. lngberg, William B. 1. Soils-Testing-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Soil Ledbetter, Donald W. Lewis, Charles R. Marek, Vernon J. Marks, mechanics-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. National Research John T. Paxton, Hisao Tomita, Richard D. Walker Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. II. Series. TE7.H5 no. 872 (TA710.5] 380.Ss [624.1'51] 83-2232 Soil Mechanics Section ISBN 0-309-03401-9 ISSN 0361-1981 Lyndon H. Moore, New York State Department of Transportation, chairman Committee on Mechanics of Earth Masses and Layered Systems Robert D. Stoll, Columbia University, chairman Dimitri Athanasiou-Grivas, Walter R. Barker, Richard D. Barksdale, Jerry C. Chang, Umakant Dash, Milton E. Harr, Gerald P. Raymond, Surendra K. Saxena, Robert L. Schiffman, Harvey E. Wahls, John L. Walkinshaw, William G. Weber, Jr., T. H. Wu Geology and Properties of Earth Materials Section David L. Royster, Tennessee Department of Transportation, chairman Committee on Soil and Rock Properties C. William Lovell, Purdue University, chairman C. 0. Brawner, William F. Brumund, Carl D. Ealy, James P. Gould, Ernest Jonas, T. Cameron Kenney, Charles C. Ladd, Gerald P. Raymond, Robert L. Schiffman, Hassan A. Sultan, William D. Trolinger, David J. Varnes, Harvey E. Wahls, John L. Walkinshaw Committee on Frost Action Wilbur M. Haas, Michigan Technological University, chairman Stephen A. Cannistra, Jorge L. Cowley, Barry J. Dempsey, Paul J. Diethelm, Albert F. Dimillio, Wilbur J. Dunphy, Jr., David C. Esch, Philip F. Frandina, Gary L. Hoffman, Glenn E. Johns, Thaddeus C. Johnson, R.H. Jones, Hiroshi Kubo, Clyde N. Laughter, C. William Lovell, George W. McAlpin, Richard W. McGaw, Robert G. Packard, Alex Rutka John W. Guinnee, Transportation Research Board staff Sponsorship is indicated by a footnote at the end of each report. The organizational units, officers, and members are as of Decem­ ber 31, 1981. Contents PHYSICAL MODELING OF CLAY SLOPES IN THE DRUM CENTRIFUGE James A. Cheney and Ali Mohamad Oskoorouchi ..................... .. ... .. ... CENTRIFUGAL TESTING OF SOIL SLOPE MODELS Myoung Mo Kim and Hon-Yim Ko .... .... ...... .. .. ........ ..... .......... 7 RECTANGULAR OPEN-PIT EXCAVATIONS MODELED IN GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE 0. Kusakabe and A.N. Schofield . ........... .. .... ... .. ....... ..... ........ .. 15 PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF BEARING CAPACITY OF LAYERED SOILS BY CENTRIFUGAL MODELING A.C. Herdy and F.C. Townsend ............ ... ......... ... ....................... 20 FIELD-PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF TWO EARTHWORK REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS Joseph B. Hannon, Raymond A. Forsyth, and Jerry C. Chang . ... ............ 24 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF FABRIC-REINFORCED RETAINING WALLS BY NEW YORK STATE Gary E. Douglas .. .... .... ........ .... .. .. ... .... .. .. .. .. .. 32 STABILIZATION OF WEDGE FAILURE IN ROCK SLOPE Duncan C. Wyllie . .. ... ...... ... .. .. .......... .. .... .. .... .... ...37 REPETITIVE-LOAD BEHAVIOR OF UNSATURATED SOILS E. Sabri Motan and Tuncer B. Edil .. ..... .... .. .. ... ....... .. ... ... .. .. .41 SOLAR RADIATION EFFECTS ON FROST ACTION IN SOILS Chester W. Jones ........ .............. .......... .. ... .... .. .. .. .. .... .49 FACTORS AFFECTING COATING OF AGGREGATES WITH PORTLAND CEMENT O.E.K. Daoud, H.R. Guirguis, and S.K. Hamdani .. ....... ... ...... .. ... .. .. 56 ROCK AGGREGATE MANAGEMENT PLANNING FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION: OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY Fong-Lieh Ou, Wallace Cox, and Lee Collett ... .... ....... ... ............... ..... 63 SOIL SUPPORT VALUE-A NEW Ho.ItizoN Gilbert Y. Baladi and Tesfai Goitom ......... .. ...... .. .. ..... .... .. ...... ... 69 iii ,.. Authors of the Papers in This Record Baladi, Gilbert Y., Department of Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; formerly with Federal