Significance of unsaturated behaviour of geotextiles in earthen structures

Australian Geomechanics Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 133-142

  Bouazza, Abdelmalek ^a   Zornberg, Jorge G ^b   McCartney, John S ^b   Nahlawi, Hani ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; MOISTURE; WEAVING;

DRAINAGE MATERIALS; EARTHEN STRUCTURES; MOISTURE STORAGE; NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; UNSATURATED BEHAVIOUR; UNSATURATED HYDRAULICS; WATER CONTENT PROFILES;

GEOTEXTILES;

EID: 33847691110     PISSN: 08189110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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