Insight into the mechanical behavior of opalinus clay

Rock Mechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Proceedings of the European Rock Mechanics Symposium, EUROCK 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 759-762

  Amann, F ^a   Button, E A ^a   Blumel M ^b   Thony R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC ROCK; BRITTLE ROCKS; CONSTRUCTABILITY; DIRECT SHEAR; DISPOSAL SITES; FAILURE MECHANISM; GROUND BEHAVIOR; HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; LONG-TERM INTEGRITY; LOW PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; OPALINUS CLAY; OVERCONSOLIDATED CLAYS; ROCK MASS; SWITZERLAND; UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 79960108308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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