New methods for measuring the installation depth of prefabricated vertical drains

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 493-496

  Liu, Han Long ^a   Chu, Jian ^b   Ren, Zaiyong ^c  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Zhejiang Binwang Engineering Materials Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Prefabricated vertical drains; Quality control; Soil improvement

Indexed keywords

KEY FACTORS; PREFABRICATED VERTICAL DRAINS; SOFT SOILS; SOIL IMPROVEMENT; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

DRAINAGE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SOILS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

GEOMEMBRANE; GEOSYNTHETICS; INSTALLATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; REINFORCED EARTH; SOIL IMPROVEMENT; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

BUILDING MATERIAL; GEOTEXTILE; MEASURING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL BURIAL TEST;

EID: 70449526552     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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