Compression and consolidation characteristics of structured natural clay

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1250-1258

  Chai, J C ^a   Miura, N ^b   Zhu, H H ^c   Yudhbir, A ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Soft Soil Engineering Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compression; Consolidation; Constitutive model; Numerical analysis; Structured natural clay

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSOLIDATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NATURAL CLAY; SOIL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURED CLAYS; VOID RATIO;

CLAY;

CLAY; COMPRESSION; CONSOLIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 15544378847     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T04-056     Document Type: Article

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