Compressibility and strength behaviour of sand-tyre chip mixtures

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 711-724

  Rao, G Venkatappa ^a   Dutta, R K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Compressibility tests; Repeated load tests; Sand; Triaxial test; Tyre chips

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; COMPRESSION TESTING; EMBANKMENTS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LOAD TESTING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

SAND-TYRE CHIP MIXTURES; TRIAXIAL TEST;

SAND;

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; LOADING TEST; SAND; SOIL MECHANICS; TIRE;

EID: 33745698665     PISSN: 09603182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-004-4006-x     Document Type: Article

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