Soil improvement for a road using the vacuum preloading method

Ground Improvement

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 165-172

  Yan, S W ^a   Chu, J ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Case history; Consolidation; Ground improvement

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; PRELOADING; SOFT CLAY; SOIL IMPROVEMENT; WATER CONTENT;

CHINA;

EID: 0242708889     PISSN: 1365781X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/grim.7.4.165.37313     Document Type: Article

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