Hydraulic behaviour of soil-geocomposite layers in slopes

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 145-155

  Iryo, Tatsuo ^a   Rowe, R Kerry ^b  

^a SNC LAVALIN INC   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drainage; Finite element method; Geocomposite; Geosynthetics; Unsaturated

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DRAINAGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAND; SOILS;

GEOCOMPOSITE DRAINS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INFILTRATION RATE; STEEPER SLOPE; UNSATURATED SOIL-GEOCOMPOSITE LAYERS;

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

GEOSYNTHETICS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY;

BARRIER FABRIC; COMPOSITE; DRAINAGE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOSYNTHETICS;

EID: 32044460630     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 10726349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2005.12.3.145     Document Type: Article

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