Small strain characteristics of soils in Hualien, Taiwan

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 111-125

  Tanaka, Yukihisa ^a   Kudo, Koji ^a   Nishi, Koichi ^a   Okamoto, Toshiro ^a   Kataoka, Tetsuyuki ^a   Ueshima, Teruyuki ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclic triaxial test; Deformation property; Frozen sample; Gravelly soil; Site investigation; Velocity logging (IGC: D7)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012394602     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.40.3_111     Document Type: Article

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