Direct shear testing method as a means for estimating geogrid - Sand interface shear - Displacement behavior

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Nakamura, Tsutomu ^a   Mitachi, Toshiyuki ^b   Ikeura, Isao ^a  

^a TOMAKOMAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(Geogrid); (Reinforced soil); Dilatancy; Direct shear test; Friction; Sand (IGC: D6)

Indexed keywords

EID: 4143111808     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.39.4_1     Document Type: Article

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