Numerical simulation of geosynthetic-reinforced flexible pavements

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1534, 1996, Pages 58-65

  Wathugala, G Wije ^a   Huang, Baoshan ^a   Pal, Surajit ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTEXTILES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REINFORCEMENT; STIFFNESS; STRESSES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; GEOGRIDS; GEOSYNTHETIC REINFORCED FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT; GEOSYNTHETIC REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRESSES;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 0030284116     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1534-09     Document Type: Article

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