Old railway embankment clay fill - Laboratory experiments, numerical modelling and field behaviour

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 911-921

  O'Brien, A S ^a   Ellis, E A ^a   Russell, D ^a  

^a MOTT MACDONALD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; PLASTICITY; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRESSES; VEGETATION;

CLAY FILLS; PERMEABILITY CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS-STRAIN MODELS; TRACK DISPLACEMENT;

EMBANKMENTS;

EID: 32544447270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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