... stored in sealed plastic bags since excavation. Most of the swells were determined over a period of about 24 hours along three cube axes, and expansion with time was monitored on analogue recorders. The cubes from each sample were pretreated in different ways before immersion in water, i.e. some were...

... phenomena, both resulting from soaking after drying. The degree of dryness is regarded as the basic factor in the occurence of these phenomena. Based on these ideas, physical and mechani- cal tests and immersion inferiority tests were carried out on mudstone of various dryness, and the following is a report...