Application of X-ray CT method for characterization of failure in soils

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-118

  Otani, Jun ^a   Mukunoki, Toshifumi ^a   Obara, Yuzo ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clay; Failure; Image processing; Nondestructive method; Unconfined compression test; Visualization; X ray CT scanner (IGC: D6 E0)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001098365     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.40.2_111     Document Type: Article

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