Permeability and volume changes in till due to cyclic freeze/thaw

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 471-477

  Viklander, Peter ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fine grained; Freeze thaw; Non plastic; Permeability; Residual void ratio; Till

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; FROST EFFECTS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PERMEAMETERS (MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY); SOIL MECHANICS; THAWING;

TILL;

SOIL TESTING;

FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PERMEABILITY; TILL; VOID RATIO;

EID: 0032105323     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t98-015     Document Type: Article

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