Advances in volume measurement in unsaturated soil triaxial tests

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 341-349

  Laloui, Lyesse ^a   Péron, Hervé ^a   Geiser, Françoise ^b   Rifa'i, Ahmad ^c   Vulliet, Laurent ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Geomod Ingénieurs Conseils SA   (Switzerland)

^c Soil Mechanics Laboratory   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Advanced measurement techniques; Unsaturated triaxial testing; Volume measurement

Indexed keywords

SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; TITRATION;

ADVANCED MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; AIR VOLUMES; SATURATED SOILS; UNSATURATED SOIL; UNSATURATED SOIL MECHANICS; UNSATURATED TRIAXIAL TESTING; VOLUME CHANGE;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34247354961     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.46.341     Document Type: Article

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