Contraction-driven shear failure in compacting uncemented sediments

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 931-934

  Shin, Hosung ^a   Santamarina, Carlos J ^a   Cartwright, Joseph A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINED CONDITION; EXTERNAL LOADING; FAILURE CONDITIONS; LATERAL STRAIN; LATERAL STRESS; NATURAL FRACTURE SYSTEM; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PARTICLE VOLUME; PARTICULATE MATERIALS; PRESSURE DIFFUSION; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEDIMENT PARTICLES; SHEAR FAILURE; SHEAR STRAIN LOCALIZATION; TECTONIC STRESS; VOLUME CONTRACTION; VOLUME LOSS;

ELASTICITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHRINKAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

FRACTURE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPACTION; COULOMB CRITERION; DIFFUSION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRICTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRAIN; SOIL MECHANICS; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 68049105775     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24951A.1     Document Type: Article

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