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SPECIAL ARTICLES ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JAPANESE GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY 39 Years of Soils and Foundations Fumio Tatsuoka ... 1 Soils and Foundations during the 1960s Yoshiaki Yoshimi ... 5 A Review of the Chronological History of Soils and Foundations from 1960 to 1998 Jiro Takemura, Hideo Komine, Tadashi Yamabe and Satoru Ohtsuka ... 7 TECHNICAL PAPERS Soil Fracturing of the Surrounding Clay during Deep Mixing Column Installation S.-L. Shen and Norihiko Miura ... 13 Analysis of Plate-Elastic Medium Interaction by Boundary Element-Linear Complementary Equation Method J. R. Xiao, T. S. Lok and S. Z. Xu ... 23 Stress-Strain Behavior of Sand in Plane Strain Compression, Extension and Cyclic Loading Tests Toru Masuda, Fumio Tatsuoka, Shinichi Yamada and Takeshi Sato ... 31 A “Class A” Prediction of the Bearing Capacity of Plane Strain Footings on Sand J. Tejchman and I. Herle ... 47 Empirical Correlation between SPT N-value and Relative Density for Sandy Soils M. Cubrinovski and Kenji Ishihara ... 61 Reliability in Back Analysis of Slope Failures W. H. Tang, T. D. Stark and M. Angulo ... 73 Evaluation of Dynamic Soil Properties in Mexico City Using Downhole Array Records V. Taboada-Urtuzu'astegui, H. Mart'inez and M. P. Romo ... 81 Estimating K0-value of In-situ Gravelly Soils Munenori Hatanaka, Akihiko Uchida and Yuji Taya ... 93 An Insight into the Failure of Reinforced Sand in Plane Strain Compression by FEM Simulation Nozomu Kotake, Fumio Tatsuoka, Tadatsugu Tanaka, M. S. A. Siddiquee and Hiromoto Yamauchi ... 103 A New Analytical Model for Settlement Analysis of a Single Pile in Multi-Layered Soil K.-M. Lee and Z. R. Xiao ... 131 TECHNICAL NOTE A Study on the Permeability of Soil-Cement Mixture Y. Yu, J. Pu, Keizo Ugai and Takashi Hara ... 145 A Modified Procedure to Evaluate Active Earth Pressure at High Seismic Loads (errata) Junichi Koseki, Fumio Tatsuoka, Y. Munaf, Masaru Tateyama and Kenichi Kojima ... 150 ANNOUNCEMENTS ......... 151 JGS NEWS ......... I~III