Factors affecting the initial stiffness of cohesive soils

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-441

  Santagata, Marika ^a   Germaine, John T ^b   Ladd, Charles C ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Clays; Cohesive soils; Elastic properties; Stiffness; Undrained shear tests; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; COMPACTION; ELASTIC MODULI; STIFFNESS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COHESIVE SOILS; CONSOLIDATION STRESS LEVEL; OVERCONSOLIDATION RATIO (OCR); RESEDIMENTED BOSTON BLUE CLAY (RBBC);

SOILS;

COHESIVE SOIL; STIFFNESS;

EID: 15844384194     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2005)131:4(430)     Document Type: Article

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