Influence of strain rate, specimen length and confinement on measured geotextile properties

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 205-225

  Boyle, S R ^a   Gallagher, M ^b   Holtz, R D ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Box 352700 ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Geotextile; Testing; Wide Width strip tensile test

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; SOILS; STRAIN RATE; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE TESTING;

CONFINEMENT; GEOTEXTILE PROPERTIES; IN ISOLATION TEST; IN SOIL TEST; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILES; SPECIMEN LENGTH; WIDE WIDTH STRIP TENSILE TEST; WOVEN GEOTEXTILES;

GEOTEXTILES;

CONFINEMENT; GEOSYNTHETIC; GEOTEXTILE; STRAIN RATE; STRENGTH;

EID: 0030442655     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.3.0060     Document Type: Article

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