Physical and numerical model of colloidal silica injection for passive site stabilization

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 917-925

  Gallagher, Patricia M ^a   Finsterle, Stefan ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SILICA; SOIL LIQUEFACTION; SOIL TESTING; STABILIZATION;

CENTRIFUGE MODEL TEST; COLLOIDAL SILICA; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FUNCTION OF TIME; INVERSE MODELING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; STABILIZING MATERIALS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EID: 34248659727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.3.917     Document Type: Article

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