Geotechnical Engineering in Residual Soils









PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

of that scheme I went to Indonesia in 1960 to work for the Indonesian government

in its Institute for Soil and Highway Investigations in Bandung,

West Java. That was where I first encountered residual soils, especially those

of volcanic origin. I am indebted to the individuals who put together the

Volunteer Graduate Scheme, and, while I cannot mention them all by name,

I especially want to acknowledge Hugh Templeton and Ted Woodfield, who

were key figures in its establishment.

The eight years (two terms of four years) I spent at the Bandung Institute,

now the Highway Research Centre, were very enjoyable and, I hope,

fruitful ones. I owe a debt of gratitude to my colleagues there, including

the directors, engineers, and technicians, who made me welcome and from

whom I learned a great deal. A number of them are still good friends to this

day. This book, and my earlier book, would not have come into existence

had it not been for my time in Indonesia. In fact, the book Fundamentals of

Soil Mechanics for Sedimentary and Residual Soils started life as a rewrite

of a basic soil mechanics textbook that I wrote (in Indonesian) in Bandung

in 1972, near the end of my second term there.



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