Elastic visco-plastic consolidation modelling of clay foundation at Berthierville test embankment

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 491-508

  Zhu, Guofu ^b   Yin, Jian Hua ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Case history; Compression; Consolidation; Creep; Embankment

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOLIDS; CONSOLIDATION; CREEP; ELASTICITY; EMBANKMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL MECHANICS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VISCOPLASTICITY;

BERTHIERVILLE TEST EMBANKMENT;

FOUNDATIONS;

CLAY; CONSOLIDATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EMBANKMENT; FOUNDATION; MODELING; VISCOPLASTICITY;

EID: 0034062997     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(20000425)24:5<491::AID-NAG78>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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