Embankments on Organic Soils

More and more civil engineering constructions are being built on soft soils.

As areas with better foundations are used up the necessity to be able to build structures on soft soils increases.

The most troublesome of soft soils are organic soils, due to their high compressibility, and also their very low shear strength.

The authors of this text have been involved in a research project on the testing of embankments on organic soils.

This was carried out in the north-western part of Poland by the Swedish Geotechnical Institute and the Department of Geotechnics of Warsaw Agricutural University.

The results of their research is presented in this volume and provides insight into this growing area of engineering geology.