Effect of soil plasticity on damping ratio at small cyclic strains

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 131-141

  Lanzo, Giuseppe ^a   Vucetic, Mladen ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay; Creep; Cyclic loading; Damping; Laboratory testing; Rate of deformation; Sand; Simple shear test; Viscosity (ICG: D1 D7)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002483596     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.39.4_131     Document Type: Article

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