Observation of Biot compressional wave of the second kind in granular soils

Geotechnique

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 133-147

  Nakagawa, K ^a   Soga, K ^b   Mitchell, J K ^c  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Elasticity; Laboratory tests; Sands; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SOIL TESTING; STIFFNESS; VISCOSITY;

BIOT COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; GRANULAR SOILS; POISSON'S RATIO; SOIL SKELETON;

SOIL MECHANICS;

BIOT'S THEORY; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE; ELASTICITY; SOIL DYNAMICS; STIFFNESS;

EID: 0031105841     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.1997.47.1.133     Document Type: Article

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