Compaction behaviour and prediction of its characteristics of fine grained soils with particular reference to compaction energy

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 27-36

  Gurtug, Yesim ^a   Sridharan, A ^b  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Compaction; Compaction energy; Earth work; Fine grained soils; Ground improvement; Laboratory tests (IGC: D9 K5)

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; CORRELATION METHODS; MOISTURE;

EARTH WORK; FINE GRAINED SOILS; GROUND IMPROVEMENTS; LABORATORY TESTS;

SOILS;

EID: 24744449077     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.44.5_27     Document Type: Article

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