A comparison between the behaviour of swelling and of collapsing soils

Engineering Geology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 145-163

  Popescu, Mihail E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY - PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MATERIALS - MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SOIL MECHANICS; SUBSIDENCE;

COLLAPSING SOILS; METASTABLE SOILS; SWELLING SOILS;

SOILS;

EID: 0022919922     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7952(86)90036-0     Document Type: Article

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