Laboratory Validation of Ultra-Soft Soil Deformation Model

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-74

  Bo, Myint Win ^a   Choa, Victor ^b   Wong, Kai Sin ^b   Arulrajah, Arul ^c  

^a DST CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compression; Deformation; Effective stress; Large strain; Settlement

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DEFORMATION;

EFFECTIVE STRESS; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LARGE STRAIN DEFORMATION; LARGE STRAINS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPRESSIONS; SETTLEMENT; TERZAGHI'S EFFECTIVE STRESS;

SOILS;

COMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFT SOIL; STRAIN;

EID: 78650509906     PISSN: 09603182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-010-9351-3     Document Type: Article

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