Pusan reclaimed wharf zone is the district where multi-story buildings are planned collectively to be constructed by the city authorities. But the soil strata of the zone are known as typically feeble, and some engineering difficulties, like dangerous...
Pusan reclaimed wharf zone is the district where multi-story buildings are planned collectively to be constructed by the city authorities. But the soil strata of the zone are known as typically feeble, and some engineering difficulties, like dangerous foundation settlement and failure of the construction of a well foundation, have been reported.
The author has a few chances to participate in soil soundings of this district planned by the city and the other projects, and investigated the undisturbed soils from this district.
This paper is chiefly based on the information thus acquired. Some reports and literature concerning the soil engineering problems for this district have been very helpful for figuring out the distribution of bed rock, the strength of each soil stratum, underground water level, the history of reclaiming and some mutual relations of the soil characters.