Factors affecting the durability of selected weak and clay-bearing rocks from Turkey, with particular emphasis on the influence of the number of drying and wetting cycles

Engineering Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 215-237

  Gökceoglu, Candan ^a   Ulusay, Resat ^a   Sönmez, Harun ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clay bearing rocks; Regression analysis; Slake durability; Uniaxial compressive strength

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COMPRESSION TESTING; DRYING; DURABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; WETTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLAY-BEARING ROCKS; MULTIPLE-CYCLE SLAKING;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY;

CLAY MINERAL; DURABILITY; WEATHERING; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

TURKEY;

EID: 0343962719     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(00)00031-4     Document Type: Article

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