Disturbed state model for sand-geosynthetic interfaces and application to pull-out tests

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1873-1892

  Pal, Surajit ^a   Wathugala, G Wije ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbed state concept; Finite element method; Geosynthetics; Interface constitutive model; Pull out test; Sand geosynthetic interfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SAND; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE TESTING;

PULL-OUT TEST;

SOIL MECHANICS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; GEOSYNTHETICS; PULLOUT TEST; REINFORCED EARTH; SAND;

EID: 0033604790     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(19991225)23:15<1873::AID-NAG12>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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