Failure of a trial embankment on peat in Booneschans, the Netherlands

Geotechnique

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 479-490

  Zwanenburg, C ^a   Den Haan, E J ^a   Kruse, G A M ^a   Koelewijn, A R ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embankments; Failure; Full scale tests; Laboratory tests; Organic soils

Indexed keywords

BACK-ANALYSIS; DIRECT SIMPLE SHEARS; FAILURE-IN-TIME; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FULL SCALE TESTS; GEOTECHNICAL; HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS; LABORATORY TEST; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIC SOIL; OVERALL FAILURE; PEAT SAMPLES; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; TENSION CRACKS; TRIAXIAL TESTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; EMBANKMENTS; INNOVATION; MEASUREMENTS;

PEAT;

BACK ANALYSIS; EMBANKMENT; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAILURE MECHANISM; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; PEAT; SOIL MECHANICS; TENSION; TRIAXIAL TEST;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84866911920     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.9.P.094     Document Type: Article

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