Quality control of earth fills using time domain reflectometry (TDR)

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1384, 2000, Pages 290-310

  Lin, Chih Ping ^a   Siddiqui, Shafiqul I ^b   Feng, Wei ^a   Drnevich, Vincent P ^a   Deschamps, Richard J ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Soil Exploration Inc   (United States)

^c FMSM Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); NUMERICAL METHODS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFLECTOMETERS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EARTH FILLS; PROTOTYPE EQUIPMENT; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

COMPACTION;

EID: 0033876946     PISSN: 10403094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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