A microstructure approach to the sensitivity and compressibility of some eastern Canada sensitive clays

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 353-368

  Delage, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Clays; Compressibility; Fabric structure of soils; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY COEFFICIENT; COMPRESSION CURVES; FABRIC/STRUCTURE OF SOILS; FINE GRAINED SOIL; FINE-GRAINED PARTICLES; GRANULAR SOILS; INTERGRAIN INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MICRO-MACRO; MICRO-SCALES; MICROSCOPIC FEATURES; MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE CHANGES; MICROSTRUCTURE EFFECTS; MICROSTRUCTURE UNIT; NATURAL CLAYS; PHYSICAL LAWS; POROUS MATRIXS; REMOULDED SAMPLES; SENSITIVE CLAYS; SOIL SAMPLE; STANDARD ANALYSIS;

COMPRESSIBILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PORE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CLAY;

CLAY; COMPRESSIBILITY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLASTICITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 77956252191     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2010.60.5.353     Document Type: Article

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