Some factors affecting the in-soil load - Strain behaviour of virgin and damaged nonwoven geotextiles

Geosynthetics International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-50

  Mendes, M Jacominy A ^a   Palmeira, E M ^a   Matheus, Evaldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b DAI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Confinement; Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; Secant tensile stiffness; Soil reinforcement

Indexed keywords

LOAD TESTING; NONWOVEN FABRICS; REINFORCEMENT; SOIL RESISTANCE (TEXTILES); STIFFNESS; STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CONFINEMENT; LOAD-STRAIN RELATION; REINFORCED SOIL STRUCTURES;

GEOTEXTILES;

CONFINING PRESSURE; GEOTEXTILE; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STIFFNESS; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS;

GEOSYNTHETICS; GEOTEXTILE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; STRAIN; TENSILE PROPERTY; TESTING;

EID: 33947390393     PISSN: 10726349     EISSN: 10726349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/gein.2007.14.1.39     Document Type: Article

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