Shear behavior of railway ballast based on large-scale triaxial tests

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 439-449

  Indraratna, B ^a,b   Ionescu, D ^b   Christie, H D ^c  

^a ASC   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c Railway Services Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFORMATION; FRICTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RAILROAD TRACKS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR STRESS; SOIL TESTING; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

TRIAXIAL TESTS;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK);

BALLAST; RAILWAY TRACK; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TEST;

EID: 0032077666     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(1998)124:5(439)     Document Type: Article

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