Three soil improvement methods and their applications to road construction

Ground Improvement

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 103-112

  Chu, J ^a   Yan, S W ^b   Zheng, Y R ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Logistical Engineering University   (China)

Author keywords

Case history; Consolidation; Ground improvement

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

CASE HISTORY; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; RUNWAY CONSTRUCTIONS; VACUUM PRELOADING;

SOILS;

ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SOIL IMPROVEMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33745325204     PISSN: 1365781X     EISSN: 1365781X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/grim.2006.10.3.103     Document Type: Article

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