Geotechnical performance of waste tires for soil reinforcement from chamber tests

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-107

  Yoon, Yeo Won ^a   Heo, Seung Beom ^a   Kim, Keun Soo ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Reinforcement; Sand; Settlement; Tirecell; Waste tires

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; REINFORCEMENT; SAND; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; TIRES;

GEOCELL; TIRECELL;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

BEARING CAPACITY; GEOSYNTHETICS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LOADING TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; SANDY SOIL; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SOIL TEST; STIFFNESS; WASTE;

LOADING (TESTING); SOIL REINFORCEMENT; TIRE;

EID: 36649001551     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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