Initial Results of a new Free Fall-Cone Penetrometer (FF-CPT) for geotechnical in situ characterisation of soft marine sediments

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 199-208

  Stegmann, Sylvia ^a   Mörz, Tobias ^a   Kopf, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS MOVEMENT; PENETROMETER; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 34249744630     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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