Comparative study on undrained shear strength of Osaka Bay Pleistocene clay determined by several kinds of laboratory tesT

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 47-59

  Watabe, Yoichi ^a   Tsuchida, Takashi ^a  

^a PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct shear test; Pleistocene clay; Stability analysis; Triaxial test; Unconfined compression test; Undisturbed sample (IGC: D6)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006292054     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.41.5_47     Document Type: Article

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