Flexural excitation in a standard torsional-resonant column device

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 478-490

  Cascante, Giovanni ^a   Santamarina, Carlos ^b   Yassir, Najwa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Attenuation; Mechanical waves; Modal testing; Resonant column; Sands; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DAMPING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SAND; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SEISMIC WAVES; SOIL TESTING; STIFFNESS; TORSION TESTING;

FLEXURAL EXCITATION; TORSIONAL-RESONANT COLUMN DEVICES;

SOIL MECHANICS;

SAND; SOIL DYNAMICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032105191     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t98-012     Document Type: Article

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