ABSTRACT
A few very important cases of embankment test fills are reviewed, and lessons are extracted confirming to a surprising degree the fact that any past effort, no matter how good at the time, inevitably calls for ulterior revisions, both of mistakes and bias, and of dispersions. However, using as mere examples the world-publicised cases of Vasby, Sweden 1946, the M.I.T. Performance vs. Prediction 1974, and the corresponding Kuala Lumpur 1989, one concludes that there is little cause for elation regarding ENGINEERNG, despite the notable advances in geotechnique’s scientific bases.
