Some aspects of the compression and collapse behaviour of an unsaturated natural loess

Geotechnique Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 17-22

  Munoz Castelblanco J ^a   Delage, P ^a   Pereira, J M ^a   Cui, Y J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Compressibility; Laboratory tests; Partial saturation; Plasticity; Suction; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

BARCELONA; BASIC MODELS; COLLAPSE STRESS; COMPRESSION CURVES; COMPRESSION TESTS; CONSTANT RATE OF STRAIN; HIGH-CAPACITY; LABORATORY TESTS; PARTIAL SATURATION; REPRESENTATIVE POINT; STEP LOADING; SUCTION; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR; UNSATURATED LOESS; YIELD CURVE;

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPRESSION TESTING; PLASTICITY; SOIL MECHANICS; TESTING;

STRAIN RATE;

COMPRESSION; LABORATORY METHOD; LOESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OEDOMETER TEST; PLASTICITY; SUCTION; TENSIOMETER; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

FRANCE;

EID: 84855384511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geolett.11.00003     Document Type: Article

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