Open-mode discontinuities in soils

Geotechnique Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 95-99

  Shin, H ^a   Santamarina, J C ^b  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure; Numerical modelling; Strain localization

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION CRACKS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; IMMISCIBLE PHASIS; MACRO SCALE; MISCIBLE FLUID; NUMERICAL MODELLING; STRAIN LOCALIZATION; STRESS-DEPENDENT;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FRACTURE; GAS HYDRATES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SOILS; UNLOADING;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

COMPRESSION; CRACK; DESICCATION; DISCONTINUITY; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855394134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geolett.11.00014     Document Type: Article

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