Numerical investigations into cycling of full-flow penetrometers in soft clay

Geotechnique

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 801-812

  Zhou, H ^a   Randolph, M F ^b  

^a Department of Advanced Geomechanics ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clays; Numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951901497     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.7.00200     Document Type: Article

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