| TECHNICAL PAPERS |  
 
 
  
 | Viscous Behaviour of Unbound Granular Materials in Direct Shear |  
 
 
  
 | 	A. Duttine, Fumio Tatsuoka, W. Kongkitkul and Daiki Hirakawa |  
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 | Cyclic Triaxial Tests on Asphalt Concrete as a Water Barrier for Embankment Dams |  
 
 
  
 | S. Feizi-Khankandi, A. A. Mirghasemi, A. Ghalandarzadeh and K. Hoeg |  
 ... 319 |  
 
 
  
 | Residual Deformation of
  Geosynthetic-reinforced Sand in Plane Strain Compression Affected by Viscous Properties of Geosynthetic Reinforcement |  
 
 
 | W. Kongkitkul, Daiki Hirakawa and Fumio Tatsuoka |  
 ... 333 |  
 
 
 
  
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 Effect of Slope on
 P-Y Curves Due to Surcharge Load |  
 
 
  
 | K. Muthukkumaran, R. Sundaravadivelu and S.R. Gandhi |  
 ... 353 |  
 
 
  
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 Mechanical
 Behavior of Bentnite-sand Mixtures as Buffer Materials |  
 
 
  
 | Toshiyuki Mitachi |  
 ... 363 |  
 
 
  
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 Large-scale Shake Table Experiment and Numerical Simulation on the Nonlinear Behavior of Pile-groups Subjected to Large-scale Earthquakes |  
 
 
  
 | Masahiro Shirato, Yoshinori Nonomura, Jiro Fukui and Shoichi Nakatani |  
 ... 375 |  
 
 
 
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 Linear Model to Predict
 Soil-gas Diffusivity from Two Soil-water Retention Points in Unsaturated Volcanic Ash Soils |  
 
 
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  A. C. Resurreccion, Toshiko Komatsu, Ken Kawamoto, Masanobu Oda, Seiko Yoshikawa and P. Moldrup  |  
 ... 397 |  
 
 
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  Effects of Water Content Distribution on Hydraulic Conductivity of Prehydrated GCLs against Calcium Chloride Solutions  |  
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 Takeshi Katsumi, Hiroyuki Ishimori, Atsushi Ogawa, Satoshi Maruyama and Ryoichi Fukagawa |  
 ... 407 |  
 
 
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  Formulation of a Dusty Gas Model for Multi-component Diffusion in the Gas Phase of Soil  |  
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 Yoshihiko Hibi |  
 ... 418 |  
 
 
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  Undrained End Bearing Capacity of an Improved Soil
 Berm in an Excavation  |  
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  Y. D. Zhang, T. S. Tan and C. F. Leung  |  
 ... 433 |  
 
 
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  TECHNICAL NOTE  |  
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  Rate-dependent Response of Dense Sand in Cyclic Triaxial Tests  |  
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  L. A. Salvati and L. Q. AnhDan  |  
 ... 447 |  
 
 
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