Effects of drained pre-loading on the performance of shallow foudations on overconsolidated clay

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 891-896

  Lehane, B M ^a   Gaudin, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGE EXPERIMENTS; OVERCONSOLIDATED CLAY; PRE-LOADING; STANDARD DESIGN;

BEARING CAPACITY; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; CLAY; CONSOLIDATION; DRAINAGE; NUMERICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS;

FOUNDATIONS;

EID: 27744551869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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