Unsaturated consitutive surfaces from pressuremeter tests

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-185

  Schnaid, Fernando ^a   Kratz de Oliveira, Luis Artur ^a   Gehling, Wai Ying Yuk ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Collapsible soils; Constitutive relations; Laboratory tests; Pressuremeters; Unsaturated soils

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOILS; STIFFNESS;

YIELD PRESSURE;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

COLLAPSE; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; FAILURE MECHANISM; PRESSUREMETER; SOIL MECHANICS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 1342288913     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2004)130:2(174)     Document Type: Article

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