Creep and stress relaxation of geotextile-reinforced soils

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 425-434

  Helwany, S M B ^a   Shih, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP TESTING; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; REINFORCEMENT; SOIL TESTING; STRESS RELAXATION;

GEOTEXTILE REINFORCED SOIL;

GEOTEXTILES;

CREEP; GEOSYNTHETICS; REINFORCED EARTH; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CREEP; GEOSYNTHETIC; GEOTEXTILE; STRESS; TESTING; TESTING INSTRUMENT;

EID: 0032405980     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.5.0129     Document Type: Article

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