Modeling expansive soil movements beneath structures

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 572-579

  Masia, Mark J ^a   Totoev, Yuri Z ^a   Kleeman, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expansive clays; Expansive soils; Foundations; Numerical models; Soil suction; Soils deformation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS;

GROUND MOVEMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL SUCTION;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

EXPANSIVE SOIL; GROUND MOVEMENT; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 2942602688     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2004)130:6(572)     Document Type: Article

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