Identification of statistically homogeneous soil layers using modified bartlett statistics

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 649-659

  Phoon, Kok Kwang ^a   Quek, Ser Tong ^a   An, Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Correlation; Homogeneity; Monte Carlo method; Random processes; Soil layers; Stationary processes; Statistics

Indexed keywords

SOILS; TESTING;

SOIL LAYERS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

HOMOGENEITY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL PROFILE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042804930     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2003)129:7(649)     Document Type: Article

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