ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author notes that the investigations of the behaviour of the embankment on a soft clay foundation showed quite satisfactory and quantitative results. As experience has shown, centrifuge investigations of the behaviour of various embankments give the answer to some problems unsolved by up-dated analytical methods. Models were subjected to horizontal vibrations and, in the author's estimation, the effects on the centrifugal models were similar to those observed at the San Fernando lower dam, Seed. A centrifuge was purposely built to investigate the slope stability of dams and other embankments. The work started with investigations of railway embankments to substantiate the soil embankment density for high speed railroads. The comparison between the experimental settlements and prototype observations on constructed embankments is the most interesting aspect of this work. In particular, C. J. Padfield and A. N. Schofield, carried out the most prominent investigations of the Thames flood embankments following earlier work by Hird et al in Manchester.
