Swelling-shrinkage behavior of natural expansive clays

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 211-227

  Basma, Adnan A ^a,b   Al Homoud, Azm S ^b   Husein Malkawi, Abdallah I ^b   Al Bashabsheh, Mohamed A ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOISTURE; PLASTICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHRINKAGE; SWELLING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WETTING;

SOIL FABRIC; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

CLAY;

CLAY; EXPANSIVE CLAY; EXPANSIVE SOIL; SHRINKAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; SWELLING; SWELLING BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0030404396     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-1317(96)00009-9     Document Type: Article

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