| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements / Remerciements | |
| Organization of the symposium / Organisation du colloque | |
| Biography / Biographie | p. 3 |
| A brief history of pressuremeter | p. 5 |
| Une breve histoire du pressiometre | p. 25 |
| Pressuremeter method for spread footings on sand | p. 49 |
| Influence of the compressibility-dilatancy models on the result of a pressuremeter test | p. 57 |
| Estimation of soil parameters using a pressuremeter test | p. 65 |
| Performance studies of cavity expansometer: A monocell pressuremeter | p. 73 |
| A database of moisture induced soil collapse from the pressuremeter | p. 81 |
| Pressuremeter tests under various overburden pressure | p. 87 |
| Time dependent behaviour of sand from pressuremeter tests | p. 95 |
| Evaluation of densification of loose sand by SBP and DMT | p. 101 |
| Predicting the creep-induced lateral displacement of piles from pressuremeter tests | p. 109 |
| Measurement and interpretation of shear modulus in SBP tests in sand | p. 115 |
| Advances in pressuremeter technology with specific reference to clays | p. 125 |
| Assessment of in situ horizontal stress and modulus of London Clay at a site in Kent using the self-boring pressuremeter | p. 141 |
| Numerical assessment of an in situ pressuremeter strain-holding test | p. 147 |
| A comparison of pressuremeter and piezocone methods of determining the coefficient of consolidation | p. 153 |
| A pressuremeter study of Louiseville sensitive clay | p. 161 |
| Utilisation de pressiometre pour l'identification des parametres d'un modele elastoplastique | p. 169 |
| Disturbance does not prevent obtaining reliable parameters from SBP tests in clay | p. 177 |
| A continuous pressuremeter test based on the 'sharp cone' principle | p. 185 |
| Analyse theorique et experimentale de l'equilibre elasto-plastique d'un sol coherent autour du pressiometre | p. 193 |
| The push-in LLT with a water tank immediately above a probe | p. 201 |
| Response of the generalized Prager model on pressuremeter path | p. 207 |
| Interpretation of pressuremeter testing in cohesive soil | p. 215 |
| Non-linear stress-strain behaviour of clay from self-boring pressuremeter tests | p. 223 |
| Determination of undrained shear strength of soft clays by pressuremeter tests | p. 231 |
| Field studies of the Full Displacement Pressuremeter in clays | p. 239 |
| Dilatometer testing of rock | p. 249 |
| The directional dilatometer: A new option to determine rock mass deformability | p. 257 |
| Development of a new calibration and interpretation procedure of pressuremeter tests to obtain elastic parameters | p. 265 |
| Pressuremeter tests at 310 m depth on argillaceous formations | p. 273 |
| Strain distribution of artificial soft rock induced by cyclic pressuremeter testing | p. 281 |
| The pressuremeter for the determination of deformation and strength properties of ice | p. 289 |
| An extension of the interpretation model for the sharp cone test for the determination of deformability parameters of rock-like materials | p. 295 |
| Revue critique et interpretation d'essais pressiometriques rapides dans la glace | p. 303 |
| Etat de contrainte dans un milieu fini lors d'un essai pressiometrique | p. 311 |
| Comparison between uniaxial strength- and dilatometer test results in a rock cavern | p. 319 |
| Laboratory experiments with a high pressure dilatometer on an instrumented concrete block | p. 325 |
| Essais au pressiometre dans un milieu encaissant de pieux en beton moules dans le roc | p. 329 |
| Contact problems for half-space with limit contact pressure | p. 341 |
| The 'Expansol test': In situ measurement of swelling potential | p. 349 |
| L'enregistrement des donnees au pressiometre Menard: Un outil puissant de controle-qualite et d'instructions du personnel | p. 355 |
| Some improvements of the Cambridge pressuremeter use | p. 361 |
| New loading system of pressuremeter | p. 367 |
| A new measuring method of borehole wall displacements for pressuremeter tests | p. 373 |
| The view from the other side - Lift-off stress and the six arm self boring pressuremeter | p. 379 |
| The Cone Pressuremeter: An efficient way of pressuremeter testing | p. 387 |
| New self-contained, computer controlled pressuremeter | p. 395 |
| Deformation of diaphragm walls estimated from pressuremeter | p. 405 |
| Pressuremeter: Applications in the design of geotechnical structures | p. 411 |
| Le pressiometre Menard, un outil efficace pour la verification de travaux d'amelioration de mauvais terrains | p. 419 |
| The present design rules for foundations based on Menard PMT results | p. 425 |
| Field creep test by pressuremeter 'Diflupress L.D.' | p. 433 |
| Stabilite des ouvrages en Terre Armee: Utilisation des regles pressiometriques | p. 441 |
| Utilite du pressiometre pour le calcul d'un mur en jet-grouting | p. 449 |
| Predicted and observed settlements of the main pier of the Lafranconi bridge in Bratislava | p. 457 |
| Some inspiring ideas for the application of the cylindrical cavity theory | p. 461 |
| Cone pressuremeter tests in Po river sand | p. 471 |
| Correlations entre parametres MPT et parametres de forage | p. 481 |
| Author index | p. 487 |
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