Clegg hammer - California-bearing ratio correlations

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 512-523

  Al Amoudi, Omar Saeed Baghabra ^a   Asi, Ibrahim Mohammed ^b   Al Abdul Wahhab, Hamad I ^a   Khan, Ziauddin A ^c  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c Gulf Engineering House   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

California bearing ratio; Compaction; Moisture content; Predictions; Strength

Indexed keywords

HAMMERS; MOISTURE; MOLDING;

CLEGG IMPACT HAMMER (CIH);

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

COMPACTION; MOISTURE; SOIL STRENGTH; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 0036869955     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0899-1561(2002)14:6(512)     Document Type: Article

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