Lessons learned from case studies of excavation support systems through Chicago glacial clays

Proceedings of the International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Construction Processes in Geotechnical Engineering for Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 35-46

  Finno, Richard J ^a   Rechea, Cecilia ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CHICAGO; CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; EXCAVATION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; INTERNAL BRACING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LATERAL MOVEMENT; NATURAL SOILS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SOIL PARAMETERS; TUNNELING OPERATIONS; URBAN SITE;

CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SOILS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); URBAN PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84857509347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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