Mechanical properties of unsaturated pyroclastic soils affected by fast landslide phenomena

Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering - Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 917-923

  Papa, R ^a   Evangelista, A ^a   Nicotera, M V ^a   Urciuoli, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDES; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOILS;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DIRECT SHEAR TEST; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; PYROCLASTIC SOILS; SATURATION DEGREE; STRESS VARIABLES; UNDISTURBED SAMPLE; UNSATURATED PYROCLASTIC SOILS;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 77953020587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203884430.ch127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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