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Excerpt from In the Cave of Aladdin: A Little Narrative of the Safe Deposit VaultThe glamour of regal luxury dazzles us reminiscently as we recall the legend of priceless services of gold and Silver, of cisterns and vases filled with money, of purses dispensing ten thousand gold pieces, of trays and baskets of gems of incomparable size and brilliance, o f magnificent robes wrapped in silver tissue, of splendid carpets for imperial feet to trea...

This book deals with the behaviour of soft ground improved by some of the more common methods, including the installation of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs), or the installation of soil-cement columns formed by deep mixing, or the preloading of soft ground by application of a vacuum pressure in addition to, or instead of, a surcharge loading.  In particular, it describes the theories and the numerical modelling techniques that may be appl...

Excerpt from In the Cave of Aladdin: A Little Narrative of the Safe Deposit VaultThe glamour of regal luxury dazzles us reminiscently as we recall the legend of priceless services of gold and Silver, of cisterns and vases filled with money, of purses dispensing ten thousand gold pieces, of trays and baskets of gems of incomparable size and brilliance, o f magnificent robes wrapped in silver tissue, of splendid carpets for imperial feet to trea...