Gmax of fine-grained soils at wide void ratio range, focusing on time-dependent behavior

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 87-102

  Lohani, Tara Nidhi ^a   Imai, Goro ^c   Tani, Kazuo ^c   Shibuya, Satoru ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Clays; Creep; Metastability index; Shear modulus; Small strain; Soil structure (IGC: D6)

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044473807     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.41.5_87     Document Type: Article

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