Swelling characteristics of fractal-textured bentonite and its mixtures

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 197-209

  Xu, Y F ^a   Matsuoka, H ^b   Sun, D A ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bentonite; Bentonite sand mixture; Fractal; Fractal dimension; Swelling pressure; Swelling strain

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MIXTURES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRAIN; SWELLING; TEXTURES; WATER ABSORPTION;

PRESSURE TESTING;

BENTONITE;

BENTONITE; DEFORMATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SWELLING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0037328589     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-1317(02)00159-X     Document Type: Article

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