Determining effective stress and permeability equations for soft mud from simple laboratory experiments

Geotechnique

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 581-591

  Merckelbach, L M ^a,b   Kranenburg, C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Constitutive relations; Laboratory tests

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COSTS; GEOLOGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SPECIFICATIONS; STRESSES; VOLUME FRACTION;

DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; MUD-WATER INTERFACE; PERMEABILITY EQUATIONS; SOFT MUD SOILS;

SOILS;

CONSOLIDATION; MUD; PERMEABILITY; SOFT SOIL; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244336691     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2004.54.9.581     Document Type: Article

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