Relationship between the undrained shear strength, water content, and mineralogical properties of fine-grained soils

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 350-355

  Trauner, Ludvik ^a   Dolinar, Bojana ^a   Mišič, Miha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clays; Fine grained soils; Mineralogy; Shear strength; Water content

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLAY MINERALS; MINERALOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL TESTING; WATER;

FINE GRAINED SOILS; MINERALOGICAL PROPERTIES; WATER CONTENT;

SOILS;

SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL; UNDRAINED TEST; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 28844457674     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2005)5:4(350)     Document Type: Article

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