Improved soft clay characteristics due to stone column installation

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 104-111

  Guetif, Z ^a   Bouassida, M ^a   Debats, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b The vibroflotation Group   (France)

Author keywords

Composite cell; Consolidation; Improvement; Numerical simulation; Soft clay; Stone column; Vibrocompaction; Young modulus

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSOLIDATION; ELASTIC MODULI; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

MOHR COULOMB; SOFT CLAY; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PLAXIS; VIBROCOMPACTION;

CLAY;

COMPACTION; CONSOLIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLAXIS; SOFT CLAY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 33947266547     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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