Engineering characteristics and environmental impacts of the expansive Ankara Clay, and swelling maps for SW and central parts of the Ankara (Turkey) metropolitan area

Environmental Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 979-992

  Erguler, Zeynal Abiddin ^a   Ulusay, Reşat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ankara Clay; Low rise buildings; Predictive equations; Structural damage; Swelling; Swelling map

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CORRELATION METHODS; DRAINAGE; FOUNDATIONS; LAND USE; SWELLING; URBAN PLANNING;

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE;

SOILS;

BUILDING; CLAY MINERAL; DAMAGE; EXPANSIVE SOIL; MAPPING; METROPOLITAN AREA; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; SWELLING;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 0242456888     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-003-0841-y     Document Type: Article

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