Unsaturated soils: Compacted versus reconstituted states

Unsaturated Soils - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 113-136

  Tarantino, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTED SOIL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; UNSATURATED SOIL;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

SOILS;

EID: 79960323949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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