Modelling the effects of surcharge to reduce long term settlement of reclamations over soft clays: A numerical case study

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1-13

  Nash, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Creep; Finite difference analysis; Preloading; Reclamation; Soft clay; Surcharge; Vertical drains (IGC: D5 E13)

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044451967     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.41.5_1     Document Type: Article

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