Shear-wave velocity as an indicator for rheological changes in clay materials: Lessons from laboratory experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Mainsant, G ^a   Jongmans, D ^a   Chambon, G ^b   Larose, E ^a   Baillet, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LANDSLIDES; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; VISCOSITY; WATER CONTENT;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVES; APPARENT VISCOSITY; CLAY MATERIALS; CRITICAL STRESS; FRENCH ALPS; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID LIMITS; PARTICLE NETWORK; RHEOLOGICAL CHANGE; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; SOLID-FLUID TRANSITIONS; SUDDEN LOADING; THIXOTROPIC BEHAVIOR; VISCOSITY BIFURCATION;

LIQUIDS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; CLAY MINERAL; GRAVIMETRY; LANDSLIDE; MONITORING; RAINFALL; RHEOLOGY; RIGIDITY; S-WAVE; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84867505129     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053159     Document Type: Article

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