Empirical correlations of compression index for marine clay from regression analysis

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1213-1221

  Yoon, Gil Lim ^a   Kim, Byung Tak ^b   Jeon, Sang Soo ^c  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b LG   (South Korea)

^c Highway/Transp Technol Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Compression index; Consolidation; Regression; Settlement; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPACTION; CONSOLIDATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPRESSION INDEX; CONSOLIDATION TESTS; MARINE CLAY; REGRESSION MODELS;

CLAY;

CLAY; COMPRESSION; CONSOLIDATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 15544364386     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T04-057     Document Type: Article

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