Evaluation of undrained shear strength of soft clay with consideration of sample quality

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 29-42

  Tsuchida, Takashi ^a  

^a Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohesive soil; Sample disturbance; Shear strength; Triaxial compression test; Unconfined compression test (IGC: D6)

Indexed keywords

EID: 2042431857     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.40.3_29     Document Type: Article

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