Cohesion of unsaturated residual soils as a function of volumetric water content

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 449-455

  Matsushi, Y ^a   Matsukura, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Shear strength; Unsaturated soil; Volumetric water content

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MOISTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY; SOILS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COHESION; LINEAR-REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDUAL SOIL; UNSATURATED SOIL; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

SOIL MECHANICS;

COHESION; RESIDUAL SOIL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOIL MOISTURE; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 33644549245     PISSN: 14359529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10064-005-0035-9     Document Type: Article

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