Behaviour of model footings on sand reinforced with discrete inclusions

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 575-584

  Wasti, Yildiz ^a   Bütün, Mustafa Denizhan ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; COMPACTION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GEOTEXTILES; INCLUSIONS; MOISTURE; POLYPROPYLENES; REINFORCEMENT; SOIL TESTING;

DRY DENSITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED INCLUSIONS; STRIP FOOTING;

SAND;

EID: 0030257278     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-1144(96)00044-1     Document Type: Article

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