Observation of grain motion in the interior of a PSC test specimen by Laser-Aided Tomography

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 27-36

  Matsushima, Takashi ^a   Ishii, Takayuki ^b,c   Konagai, Kazuo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b The Newjec Consultants Inc   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image analysis; LAT (laser aided tomography); Micromechanics of granular materials; Plane strain compression (PSC) test; Visualization (IGC:D6)

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER APPLICATIONS; STRAIN; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

LASER-AIDED-TOMOGRAPHY (LAT); MICROMECHANICS OF GRANULAR MATERIALS; PLAIN STRAIN COMPRESSION (PSC) TESTS; VISUALIZAION (IGC: D6);

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 24744441513     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.42.5_27     Document Type: Article

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