Effect of short polymeric fibers on crack development in clays

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 247-253

  Ziegler, Stacy ^c   Leshchinsky, Dov ^a   Ling, Hoe I ^a   Perry, Edward B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Clay; Desiccation cracking; Fibrillated polypropylene fibers; Levee stability; Tensile strength; Volume change (IGC: D6 D10 H4)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038293501     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.38.247     Document Type: Article

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