Testing and modeling two rockfill materials

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 206-218

  Varadarajan, A ^a   Sharma, K G ^a   Venkatachalam, K ^b   Gupta, A K ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b CSMRS   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Models; Rockfill structures; Triaxial tests

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTICITY; EMBANKMENT DAMS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; ROCKS;

ROCKFILL MATERIALS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DRAINED TEST; LABORATORY METHOD; ROCKFILL; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 0037342228     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2003)129:3(206)     Document Type: Article

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