Compressibility behaviour of clays at large pressures

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-362

  Tripathy, Snehasis ^a,b   Schanz, Tom ^a  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clays; Compressibility; Consolidation; Expansive soils

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSOLIDATION; PRESSURE;

BENTONITIC CLAY; VERTICAL PRESSURE;

CLAY;

CLAY; COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSOLIDATION; PRESSURE;

CLAY SOIL; COMPRESSIBILITY; CONSOLIDATION; EXPANSIVE SOIL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OEDOMETER TEST; PRESSURE EFFECT; SOIL TEST;

EID: 34249702821     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T06-123     Document Type: Article

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