Comparison of interface shear strength of soil nails measured by both direct shear box tests and pullout tests

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1097-1107

  Chu, Lok Man ^a   Yin, Jian Hua ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Pull out resistance; Shear strength; Shear tests; Soil tests

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR STRESS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOIL TESTING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PULL-OUT RESISTANCE; SHEAR STRESS DISPLACEMENT; SHEAR TEST; SOIL NAIL SYSTEM;

SOIL MECHANICS;

PULLOUT TEST; SOIL NAILING;

EID: 24944590115     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2005)131:9(1097)     Document Type: Article

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