Objective site characterization using clustering of piezocone data

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 986-996

  Hegazy, Yasser A ^a   Mayne, Paul W ^b  

^a D'Appolonia   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Penetration tests; Site investigation; Soil classification; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PENETRATION TEST; SITE INVESTIGATION; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0036899244     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2002)128:12(986)     Document Type: Article

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