"Proceedings of the First Southern African Geotechnical Conference, 5-6 May 2016, Sun City, South Africa."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Committees -- Foundations : Capacity and performance of Franki enlarged-base piles -- Recent use of the internally-jacked pile test in South Africa -- The use of strain measurements along the shaft of a pile being load tested -- Execution and engineering principles of Control Modulus Column (CMC) -- Ageing of driven piles in silica sands -- Stiffness considerations of local wind turbine gravity foundations -- Laboratory investigation of the performance of rammed sand columns -- The Movement Of Soil Moisture Under a Government Subsidy House -- The design and construction of drilled and flush-grouted micropiles as covered by standard in the European Union (EU) -- Vibration associated with construction of DCIS enlarged-base piles -- The influence of foundation stiffness on the load distribution below strip foundations -- Bored piles—Cased— and Uncased—Piles or CFA—Piles, their features and limitations -- Foundation engineering on highly variable ground conditions -- Mining & tailings : Rehabilitation design options analysis and geotechnical investigation of an abandoned coal mine -- Rock fall risk with analytical hierarchy process -- Defining geotechnical design sectors: Apparent dip analysis at Jwaneng Mine, Botswana -- Waste dump and stockpile management -- Geotechnical characterization and modelling of the Mandena heavy mineral sand deposit -- Tailings as a hazardous waste: implications on design and construction management -- Modelling and design : Geotechnical design using SANS 10160: A comparison with current practice -- Semi-probabilistic geotechnical limit state design: Salient features and implementation roadmap for Southern Africa -- Reliability-based tools for quantifying risk on geotechnical projects -- Neuro-genetic approach for immersed CBR index prediction -- Numerical modelling rapid drawdown in riverbanks -- FEM analysis of the behaviour of a flexible retaining wall -- Trapdoor experiments studying cavity propagation -- Site investigation : Discrete element analysis of granular soil recovery in a vibrocore -- Continuous surface wave testing in UK practice -- A method to derive hydrogeological information from geotechnical data -- Aiding engineering and environmental problem solving using airborne geophysics -- Geotechnical investigations for low volume rural access roads -- Applicable station spacing for gravity surveys in Dolomitic Terrain -- An account of tunnel support systems for soft rock mass conditions -- Soil properties : Evaluation of dispersive soils in the Western Cape, South Africa -- A case study of heave due to flooding -- Use of a chilled-mirror dew-point potentiometer to determine suction in a railway formation material -- Variations in cohesion/friction with strain and significance in design -- Variability in soil properties and its consequences for design -- The effect of sample preparation and test procedure on the evaluation of tropical red soils -- Evaluation of methods to determine reference void ratios -- Physical modelling of changes in soil fabric using soil-salt mixtures -- Interface shear: Towards understanding the significance in geotechnical structures -- Determination of steady state lines for non-plastic platinum tailings -- Assessment of reliability of the hydrometer by examination of sediment -- Untreated fine sands and lateritic materials in low volume sealed roads -- Typical strength properties of South African soils -- Initial consumption of stabiliser testing—quo vadis? -- Measuring the tensile strength of gold tailings -- Effect of hydrometer type on particle size distribution of fine grained soil -- Falling cone test apparatus as liquid limit determination option in South Africa -- Soil reinforcement and slopes : Energy considerations in intense-rainfall triggered shallow landslides -- Analysis of a slope failure above critical infrastructure -- Stability of an undermined quay wall in Port Elizabeth -- Investigating the effect of reinforcing fine grained soils using shredded waste plastic -- Design and construction of a mining facility over weak soil using modern geogrid technology -- Optimal geogrid reinforcement of clay liners -- New results of high-tensile steel meshes tested in first large scale field test application -- Effect of water on the strength behaviour of fiber reinforced soils -- Utilizing Geotextile Tubes to extend the life of a Tailings Storage Facility -- Geogrid reinforced load transfer platforms on piles—design, practice and measurement results -- Long-term experience with a geogrid-reinforced landslide stabilization -- Author index.

"The First Southern African Geotechnical Conference was organised by the Geotechnical Division of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) under the auspices of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and took place at Sun City, South Africa on 5 and 6 May 2016. More than 60 papers were received from authors in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Algeria, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. They represent consulting engineers and engineering geologists, contractors, academics and product specialists. The papers were grouped into the following themes: Foundations, Mining and Tailings, Modelling and Design, Site investigation, Soil Properties and Soil Reinforcement and Slopes. The wide range of topics is considered to be thoroughly representative of the current activities of the geotechnical industry in the Southern African Region."--Publisher.

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