CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION 1 



BACKGROUND 1 



OBJECTIVES 2 



APPROACH 3 



TEST EQUIPMENT 3 



TESTING PROGRAM h 



SOIL TESTS 4 



DATA REDUCTION AND RESULTS 5 



ANALYSIS 7 



General 7 



Regression Analysis 8 



Physical Analysis 11 



DISCUSSION 18 



SUGGESTED PREDICTION TECHNIQUE 20 



SAMPLE PROBLEM 22 



CONCLUSIONS 26 



RECOMMENDATIONS 27 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 28 



REFERENCES 58 



SYMBOLS 59 



MBL/WHOI 



D3D1 00M3663 M 



