Performance of raft foundations for highrise buildings on the Bouldery Clay in Singapore

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-236

  Wong, I H ^a   Ooi, I K ^a   Broms, B B ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bouldery Clay; High rise buildings; Raft foundations; Settlement; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CLAY; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; LOAD TESTING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; TALL BUILDINGS;

BOULDERY CLAY; HIGH RISE BUILDING; IN SITU TEST; PRESSUREMETER TEST; RAFT FOUNDATIONS; SANDSTONE BOULDERS; SECOND CYCLE MODULI;

FOUNDATIONS;

DEFORMATION; FOUNDATION; HIGH RISE BUILDING; LOADING TEST; OVERCONSOLIDATED CLAY; SOIL MATRIX; STRENGTH;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0030114867     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t96-002     Document Type: Article

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