Quality of samples retrieved from great depth and its influence on consolidation properties

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1288-1301

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Ritoh, Fusao ^a   Omukai, Naoki ^a  

^a PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Great depth; Oedometer test; Pleistocene clay; Preconsolidation pressure; Sample disturbance; Sampling

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTS; STRAIN; SWELLING;

VOLUMETRIC STRAIN;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

CONSOLIDATION; DEPTH; OEDOMETER TEST; OVERCONSOLIDATION; PLEISTOCENE; RECLAIMED LAND; SAMPLING;

JAPAN;

EID: 0036027009     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t02-064     Document Type: Article

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