Improvement of soft soils using geogrid encased stone columns

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-175

  Gniel, Joel ^a   Bouazza, Abdelmalek ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geogrid encasement; Model tests; Reinforcement; Stone columns

Indexed keywords

COLUMN STIFFNESS; COLUMN TESTS; GEOGRID ENCASEMENT; LITTLE RESEARCHES; MODEL TESTS; POTENTIAL SITES; SMALL-SCALE MODELS; SOFT SOILS; STONE COLUMNS; STRAIN REDUCTIONS; VERTICAL STRAINS;

REINFORCEMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SOILS; TESTING;

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL);

COLUMN; GEOSYNTHETICS; SOFT SOIL; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; STIFFNESS;

GEOTEXTILE; LENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; TESTING;

EID: 67349121277     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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