Crack initiation in clay observed in beam bending

Geotechnique

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 581-594

  Thusyanthan, N I ^a   Take, W A ^b   Madabhushi, S P G ^c   Bolton, M D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Clays; Cracking; Negative pore pressure; Suction; Tensile failure

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; LANDFILL LININGS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TRANSDUCERS;

NEGATIVE PORE PRESSURE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; TENSILE CRACKING; TENSILE FAILURE;

CLAY;

BENDING; CLAY; CLAY LINER; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING; DIGITAL IMAGE; KAOLIN; LANDFILL LINER; PORE PRESSURE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 35349009160     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 00168505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2007.57.7.581     Document Type: Article

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