Effect of moisture content on tensile strength and fracture toughness of a silty soil

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 405-409

  Lakshmikantha, M R ^a   Prat, P C ^a   Tapia, J ^a   Ledesma, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRACK FRONTS; DIRECT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS THEORY; FRACTURE PARAMETER; MECHANICS LABORATORY; MOISTURE CONTENTS; RATE PROCESS THEORIES; SILTY SOILS; SOIL STRENGTH; STRESS STATE; TESTING EQUIPMENT; TWO PARAMETER;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRACKS; EQUIPMENT; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; STRESSES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 77953280451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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