Designation:D3584-83(Reapproved1988)StandardPryhceforIndexingPapersandReportsonSoilandRockforEngineeringPurposes’._..ThisstandardisissuedunderthefixeddesignationD3584;thenumberimmediatelyfollowingthedesignationindica&stheyearoforiginaladoptionor,inthecaseofrevision,theyearoflastrevision.Anumberinparenthesesindicatestheyearoflastreapproval.Asuperscriptepsilon(6)indicatesaneditorialchangesincethelastrevisionorreapproval.INTRODUCTION:__,“.This.practiceisatooloraidinindexingpapersandreportsdealingwithsoilsandrocksasengineeringmaterials.Thispracticeshouldprovideassistancetolibrariesandtechnicalinforma-tioncentersengagedinhandlingandprocessingthewrittenword.Thispracticecanserveasabasisforindexingwrittenmaterialinautomated-storageandretrievalsystemsaswellasinmanualsystems.Theprocedureprovidesstandardterminologyforstorageandretrievalsystems.Thispracticeisbasedupontheuseofkeywordstoindicatesubjectcontentofwrittendocuments.Thispracticedoesnotprovidedefinitionsfortermsbutshouldbetisedasaguidetotheproperusageofterms?ndasacontroloveracceptablevocabulary.ThekeywordlistingisessentiallythatusedbytheGeotechnicalDivisionoftheAmericanSocietyofCivilEngineersandislistedherewiththepermissionofthatorganization.Somemodificationsinthekeywordlistinghavebeenmadetoprovidecompletecoverageoftermscontained-inTerminologyD653.A_keywordlistingisdynamicandissubjecttochangebothbydeletionan4byinsertionofnewtermsastheneedarises.Thislistingwillbeperiodicallyreviewedandrevisedingccordancewiththese’identifiedneeds.i1.Scope1.1Thispracticeprovidesalistingofkeywordscoveringthebroadsubjectareasapplicableforpapersandreportsrelatingtosqilandrockmechanicsandengineering.Thetermsincludedinthelistingincludewordsandcombinationsofwordsthathavesignificantvalueinindexingandre-trievingtechnicalinformationfromtheliterature.1.2Terms(descriptors)conveyingbroad,genericconceptsaswellasspecificconceptsarecontainedinthelisting..2.ReferencedDocument’’2.1ASTMStandard:D653TerminologyRelatingtoSoil,Rock,andContainedFluids23...
