Mechanical and hydraulic properties of Nankai accretionary prism sediments: Effect of stress path

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kitajima, Hiroko ^a,b   Chester, Frederick M ^a   Biscontin, Giovanna ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cam Clay; Critical state soil mechanics; Nankai; Permeability; Stress; Triaxial deformation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRISMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESSES; UNLOADING; YIELD STRESS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN SEDIMENTS; CAM-CLAY; CONFINING PRESSURES; CRITICAL STATE; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; EFFECT OF STRESS; FORE-ARC BASIN; HORIZONTAL STRESS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INSITU STRESS; ISOTROPIC LOADING; LOAD PATHS; LOADING HISTORY; LOADING PATH; MEAN STRESS; MODIFIED CAM-CLAY MODEL; NANKAI; OVERTHRUST; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SLOPE SEDIMENT; STRESS PATHS; STRESS STATE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION; TRIAXIAL DEFORMATION; UNDRAINED; UNI-AXIAL STRAINS;

LOADING;

EID: 84868312897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004124     Document Type: Article

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