1887
Technical Committee 206 /
Comité technique 206
Integrated responsibility for both design and construction.
High ground heterogeneity and/or uncertainty in failure
mechanism.
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6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research is performed as part of “Geoimpuls” in the
Netherlands; a joint industry programme, with the ambitious
goal to half the occurrence of geotechnical failure in Dutch civil
engineering projects by 2015. The authors wish to thank the
members of the OM working group for sharing their case
histories and experiences.
