An overview of soil heterogeneity: Quantification and implications on geotechnical field problems

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Elkateb, Tamer ^a   Chalaturnyk, Rick ^a   Robertson, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Geostatistics; Heterogeneity; Spatial variability; Stochastic analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAFETY FACTOR; SEEPAGE; SOILS;

SOIL HETEROGENEITY;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

DECISION MAKING; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; SOIL; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 0037308640     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t02-090     Document Type: Article

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