Modelling time-dependent behaviour of Murro test embankment

Geotechnique

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 735-749

  Karstunen, M ^a   Yin, Z Y ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Clays; Constitutive relations; Embankments; Numerical modelling; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

BIOT'S CONSOLIDATION THEORY; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; DESTRUCTURATION; ELASTO-VISCOPLASTIC MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINLAND; LARGE DEFORMATION ANALYSIS; LARGE STRAINS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODELLING TIME; MURRO TEST EMBANKMENT; NATURAL CLAYS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OEDOMETER TESTS; SOFT SOILS; SOIL ANISOTROPY; SOIL SAMPLE; STRUCTURED CLAY; TEST RESULTS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR;

ANISOTROPY; CANALS; CLAY DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; EMBANKMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS;

SOIL TESTING;

ANISOTROPY; BIOT THEORY; CLAY SOIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; EMBANKMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFT SOIL; SOIL TEST; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

FINLAND;

EID: 79551579547     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.8.P.027     Document Type: Article

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