Tensile strength of compacted and saturated soils using newly developed tensile strength measuring apparatus

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 103-110

  Tamrakar, Surendra Bahadur ^a   Toyosawa, Yasuo ^a   Mitachi, Toshiyuki ^b   Itoh, Kazuya ^a  

^a National Institute of Industrial Health   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compaction; Compressive strength; Tensile strength; Test equipment

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EQUIPMENT TESTING; MIXTURES; SAND; SILT; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; TENSILE TESTING;

CLAY-SAND MIXTURES; CONSOLIDATION STRESS; FINER PARTICLES; MAXIMUM STRENGTH; SATURATED SOFT SOIL; TEST EQUIPMENTS; UNCONFINED COMPRESSION STRENGTH; UNCONFINED COMPRESSION TESTS;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 53549101321     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.45.103     Document Type: Article

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