Effect of soil variability on the bearing capacity of clay and in slope stability problems

Engineering Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 142-152

  Srivastava, Amit ^a   Babu, G L Sivakumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Auto correlation; Numerical; Probabilistic; Random; Spatial; Trend

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL; PROBABILISTIC; RANDOM; SPATIAL; TREND;

BEARING CAPACITY; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CLAY MINERALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; WELDS;

SLOPE STABILITY;

AUTOCORRELATION; BEARING CAPACITY; CLAY SOIL; CONE PENETRATION TEST; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOUNDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL STRENGTH; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 69249203514     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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