The shear strength mobilised in first-time slides in highly overconsolidated clays

Advances in Geotechnical Engineering: The Skempton Conference - Proceedings of a Three Day Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1005-1016

  Urciuoli, G ^a   Picarelli, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; SLOPE STABILITY; STRAIN; STRESSES;

PRINCIPAL STRESSES; SLIP SURFACES; SLOPE FAILURE;

SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 32544438796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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