Development of a true triaxial apparatus for sands and gravels

Geotechnical Testing Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-44

  Choi, Changho ^a   Arduino, Pedro ^b   Harney, Michael D ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained soil; Data acquisition; Gravel; Stress path; Stress strain behavior; True triaxial testing

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES; BACK PRESSURES; COARSE-GRAINED SOIL; CONTROLLED LOADINGS; CONVENTIONAL TRIAXIAL COMPRESSIONS; DATA CONTROLS; FLEXIBLE BOUNDARIES; GRAINED SOILS; MEAN STRESSES; PNEUMATIC LOADINGS; PRINCIPAL STRESSES; STRESS PATH; STRESS PATHS; STRESS STRAINS; STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR; TESTING PROGRAMS; TRUE TRIAXIAL APPARATUSES; TRUE TRIAXIAL TESTING; UNDRAINED; UNDRAINED CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAVEL; SOILS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TESTING;

SOIL TESTING;

SAND AND GRAVEL; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRIAXIAL TEST;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 38549155250     PISSN: 01496115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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