Influence of soil type on the effect of strain rate on small-strain cyclic shear modulus

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 161-173

  Vucetic, Mladen ^a   Tabata, Kentaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay; Cyclic shear; Sand; Shear modulus; Simple shear test; Small strain; Strain rate (IGC: D7)

Indexed keywords

CLAY; ELASTIC MODULI; SAND; STRAIN;

CYCLIC SHEAR; SIMPLE SHEAR TEST; SMALL STRAIN; STRAIN RATE (IGC:D7);

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 13244280491     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.43.5_161     Document Type: Article

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