Uniaxial compressive behavior of scrapped tire and sand-filled wire netted geocell with a geotextile envelope

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 483-490

  Lambert, Stéphane ^a   Nicot, François ^a   Gotteland, Philippe ^b  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Gabion; Geocell; Hexagonal wire mesh; Scrapped tires; Uniaxial compression

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOADS; COMPRESSION TESTING; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GEOTEXTILES; MESH GENERATION; TIRES;

GABION; GEOCELLS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE; VOLUMETRIC BEHAVIOR; WIRE MESHES;

WIRE;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; GABION; GEOTEXTILE; SAND; TIRE; UNIAXIAL STRENGTH;

EID: 80052266996     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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