Mechanical interaction between swelling compacted clay and fractured rock, and the leaching of clay colloids

Engineering Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 159-165

  Grindrod, Peter ^a   Peletier, Mark ^b   Takase, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a Dynamical Systems Group   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clay barrier; Colloids; Fractured rock; Leaching; Mechanical interaction

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FRACTURE; LEACHING; PRESSURE; RADIOISOTOPES; SWELLING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CLAY BARRIER; FRACTURED ROCK; MECHANICAL INTERACTION; SWELLING PRESSURE;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY;

BARRIER; CLAY; MECHANICAL STABILITY; SATURATED MEDIUM;

CLAY LINER; COLLOID; FRACTURED MEDIUM; LEACHING; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; SWELLING;

EID: 0033199258     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(99)00071-X     Document Type: Article

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