Behaviour of recompacted residual soils in a constant shear stress path

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 648-661

  Junaideen, S M ^a,c   Tham, L G ^a   Law, K T ^b   Dai, F C ^a,d   Lee, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Arup Singapore Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Constant shear; Laboratory test; Pore pressure; Rain induced failure; Recompacted soil; Stress path

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT SHEAR; CRITICAL-STATE; DEBRIS FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; LABORATORY TEST; RESIDUAL SOIL; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL BEHAVIOUR; SOIL STRESS; STRESS PATHS; TEST PROGRAM; UNDISTURBED SOILS; VOLUME CHANGE BEHAVIOUR;

DEBRIS; PORE PRESSURE; RAIN; SHEAR STRESS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

SOILS;

COMPACTION; DEBRIS FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; PORE PRESSURE; RESIDUAL SOIL; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR TEST; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL MECHANICS; VOLUME CHANGE;

EID: 77953522150     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T09-129     Document Type: Article

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