Particle breakage during cyclic triaxial loading of a carbonate sand

Geotechnique

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 477-482

  Donohue, S ^a   O'Sullivan, C ^b   Long, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcareous soils; Laboratory tests; Sands

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS SOILS; CARBONATE SAND; CYCLIC LOADINGS; CYCLIC STRESS RATIO; CYCLIC TRIAXIAL TESTS; DYNAMIC LOADINGS; LABORATORY TESTS; PARTICLE BREAKAGE; PAVEMENT STRUCTURES; STRESS LEVELS; TRIAXIAL LOADING; VOLUMETRIC STRAIN;

DYNAMIC LOADS; SAND; SOILS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

BREAKAGE; CALCAREOUS SOIL; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CYCLIC LOADING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; SAND; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TRIAXIAL TEST;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 67649291770     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 00168505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2008.T.003     Document Type: Article

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