Role of specimen geometry, soil height and sleeve length on the pull-out behaviour of geogrids

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 701-719

  Lopes, M L ^a   Ladeira, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Geogrid; Interaction; Pull out behaviour; Pull out test; Sleeve length; Soil height; Specimen geometry

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SHEAR STRESS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEAR RESISTANCE;

GEOGRIDS; PULL OUT TESTS; SHEAR RESISTANCE;

GEOTEXTILES;

GEOGRID; GEOSYNTHETIC; PULLOUT TEST; SOIL/GEOSYNTHETIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0030442045     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.3.0081     Document Type: Article

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