Effects of soil aggregates on debris-flow mobilization: Results from ring-shear experiments

Engineering Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 84-92

  Iverson, Neal R ^a   Mann, Janet E ^a   Iverson, Richard M ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Debris flows; Porosity; Ring shear; Soil

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATED SOIL; CONFINING STRESS; CRITICAL-STATE; DEBRIS FLOWS; DISAGGREGATION; EXCESS PORE PRESSURE; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; HIGH STRAINS; INITIAL VALUES; LOAMY SAND; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; RING-SHEAR; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL POROSITY; TRIAXIAL TEST;

AGGREGATES; DEBRIS; EXPERIMENTS; SOILS; STRAIN;

POROSITY;

AGGREGATE; CRITICAL STATE; DEBRIS FLOW; DEFORMATION; DILATION; LOAMY SAND; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; SOIL MECHANICS; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 77953613961     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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