Strength and deformation of biologically cemented sandstone

Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions - Soft Rocks and Karst - Proceedings of the Regional Symposium of the International Society for Rock Mechanics, EUROCK 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 405-410

  Van Paassen, L A ^a   Van Loosdrecht, M C M ^a   Pieron, M ^a   Mulder, A ^a   Ngan Tillard, D J M ^a   Van Der Linden, T J M ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CEMENTED SANDS; CONFINING STRESS; DRY DENSITY; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION ANGLES; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRENGTH TESTS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; EXPERIMENTS; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE;

ROCKS;

EID: 84859921546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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