Non-traditional approaches in soil classification derived from the cone penetration test

Geotechnical Special Publication

Volumn , Issue 121 SPEC., 2003, Pages 101-149

  Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Tumay, Mehmet T ^b  

^a Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone penetration test; Fuzzy subset method; Point estimation; Probabilistic method; Region estimation; Soil behavior; Soil classification; Soil composition; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONE PENETRATION TEST; FUZZY SUBSET METHOD; POINT ESTIMATION; REGION ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE STATGRAPHICS; SOIL ENGINEERING CLASSIFICATION;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037220609     PISSN: 08950563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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