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Archive of Past Conferences 1970 - 1979

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1970

Presiding Chairmen: Lyle Pederson and Mervyn Mindess

• "Special Techniques for Soil Investigation"
  John H. Schmertmann
   

• "Methods of Dewatering Excavations"
  Richard W. Loughney
   

• "Groundwater Control on an Urban Interstate Highway Project"
  Eugene A. Hickok
   

• "Rock Anchors for the Midwest Federal Parking Ramp"
  Roger Bethel
   

• "Earth Anchor Tie-Back Installations"
  Paul Andersen
   

• "Freeze Wall Installation: I-94 Bottleneck Tunnel"
  Edward Archibald

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1971

Presiding Chairmen: Mervyn Mindess and L.D. Dempsey

• "Lateral Loading Tests on Cast-in-Place Caissons in Decorah Shale"
  Leonard G. Olson
   

• "Piling Selection, Design, Installation and Testing for the Interstate Highway Construction in the Hawthorne, Parade Ground Area of Minneapolis"
  Carmin DeVito
   

• "Failure in Foundations"
  Jacob Feld
   

• "Movements in Compacted Earth Fill: Calculations and Measurements"
  J.M. Duncan
   

• "Southwest Suburban Sanitary District Crossing Across the Minnesota River Valley: Design and Construction"
  Bob Robertson
  W.R. Robinson
   

• "Typical Sheeting and Bracing for Excavation"
  Jacob Feld

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1972

Presiding Chairmen: L.D. Dempsey and Ronald Makredes

• "Concrete and Slurry Walls using Slurry Trench Construction"
  George Tamaro
   

• "Safety in Trench Construction"
  Jack L. Mickle
   

• "Application of Soil Strain Measurement to Engineering Problems"
  Ernest T. Selig
   

• "Caisson Design and Construction Problems"
  Jorg Osterberg
   

• "Case History - Settlement and Bearing Capacity Analysis of a Grain Elevator Founded on Lake Agassiz Clay"
  Mervyn Mindess
   

• "Stretching Penetration Test Data to Predict Settlement"
  Bruce Thorson

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1973

Presiding Chairmen: Ronald Makredes and Warren Lindeke

• "Uses and Improved Design Techniques for Insulated Pavements"
  Armand Maki
   

• "Minnesota Case Histories"
  Wallace Dreveskracht
  E.L. Pehrson
   

• "Sanitary Landfills"
  Dr. Murray McComas
   

• "Foundation Design for the St. Cloud Dam"
  Douglas Barr
   

• "Structural Solution to a Long Term Earth Slide at Bald Hill Dam"
  Douglas A. Spaulding
   

• "Foundation Analysis and Recommendations for the Northtown Shopping Center"
  Kennth LaFond
   

• "Foundation Piling for the Radisson South Hotel"
  Robert Pendergast
   

• "Experiences with Differential Settlement of Masonry Buildings in the Twin City Area"
  Donald R. Monahan

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1974

Presiding Chairmen: Jerry Masters and Lyle Pederson

• "Reinforced Earth - Theory and Design (Illustrated Case Histories)"
  Dr. Victor Ellis
   

• "Drilled Piers - Theory and Design"
  Lyman Reese
   

• "Frost Penetration Principles"
  Miles Kersten
   

• "Case History - Design and Construction of Burnsville Ice Arena"
  Bruce Thorson
   

• "Foundation Testing Techniques with Case Histories"

  • "Vane Shear"
    Mike Larson
     

  • "Pressure Meters"
    Brian Krogseng
     

  • "Screw-Plate"
    Cameron Kruse
     

  • "Cone Penetration"
    Donovan Stormoe

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1975

Presiding Chairmen: Warren Lindeke and J.S. Braun

• "Foundation Design for Vibratory Load Conditions"
  R.E. Richart, Jr.
   

• "Cautious Blasting"
  J. Malinowski
   

• "Mine Refuse Piles and the Buffalo Creek Disaster"
  Stuart B. Long
   

• "Construction of Embankment on Muskeg"
  G.P. Raymond
   

• "Roadway Embankment Over Peat-Ridgedale Shopping Center - A Case History"
  Richard D. Stehly
   

• "Monitored Surcharge-An Alternative Approach to Embankments Over Organic Soils - Olinger Boulevard in Edina"
  Stephen L. Tuttle

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1976

Presiding Chairmen: Jack Braun and Roger Hertzberg

• "Pile Load Capacity"
  M.T. Davisson
   

• "A Case History of Pile Design-Dairyland Power Co-op Unit 6, Alma, Wisconsin"
  Kenneth LaFond
   

• "Use of Interpile on the Casota Street Project in Minneapolis"
  William R. LeCorgne
   

• "Precast Concrete Piling"
  Owen Beatty
   

• "Augered Cast-in-Place piling on Waste Water Treatment Plant, Louisville, Kentucky"
  Bruce Lamberton
   

• "Founcation Problems in England- Slide Presentation"
  Lyle Pederson
   

• "Dewatering of Excavations Dug into Confined Aquifers"
  Otto Strack
   

• "Hydrology and Dewatering on the Milwaukee Sewer Tunnel"
  Carl Nezman
   

• "Dewatering Project: Interceptor Sewer Tunnel for the City of Quincy, Illinois"
  Jack DesLauriers
   

• "Dewatering Problems at Northwest Paper Plant-Brainard: Alternatives and Results"
  Thomas Smith

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1977

Presiding Chairmen: Roger Hertzberg and Miles Kersten

• "Current Design of Pre-cast and Pre-stressed Concrete Piles in North America and Europe"
  Bengt H. Fellenius
   

• "Pile Foundation for a Water Tower - Amery, Wisconsin: A Case History"
  Steven Koenes
   

• "Standard Decision Making Process in Soil and Foundation Engineering"
  John P. Gnaedinger
   

• "Minnesota Department of Transportation: Structure, Objectives, Function"
  Richard P. Braun
   

• "Recent Findings in Research on Glacial Deposits"
  Rudolph K. Hogberg
   

• "Design, Construction, and Practical Engineering Considerations of Wastewater Stabilization Pond Liners"
  James A. Skaret
   

• "Soil Percolation Tests"
  Gerald M. Sunde

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1978

Presiding Chairmen: Miles Kersten and Robert Pendergast

• "Effects of Soil Variability on Pavement Design"
  Eldon J. Yoder
   

• "Erosion Control Practices on Construction Projects"
  Lawrence E. Foote
   

• "Chemical Compaction Aids for Fine-Grained Soils"
  J.M. Hoover
   

• "Moscow-Tokyo-Stockholm - International Conferences of the Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering"
  Lyle Pederson
   

• "Design and Safety of Small Earth Dams"
  Jack C. Jones
   

• "Soil Improvement by Dynamic Compaction"
  J.O.Osterberg
  Walter P. Murphy
   

• "Tunnel Design for the St. Peter Sandstone"
  Charles R. Nelson

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1979

Presiding Chairmen: Robert Pendergast and William Kwasny

• "Geotechnical Lessons from Earth Dam Failures"
  George Sowers
   

• "Inspection of Earth-Fill Dams"
  William A. Wahler
   

• "Evaluation of Shear Strength of Soils: The Tokyo Report"
  Charles C. Ladd
   

• "Fundamentals of Frost Action"
  Carl R. Crawford
   

• "Frost Heave Correction on Primary Runway 15/33, Mankato, Minnesota Airport"
  James Craig

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