Key parameters for tensile and compressive strength of silt-lime mixtures

Geotechnique Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 7-9, 2012, Pages 81-85

  Consoli, N C ^a   Dalla Rosa Johann, A ^a   Gauer, E A ^a   Dos Santos, V R ^a   Moretto, R L ^a   Corte, M B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Compaction; Failure; Ground improvement; Laboratory tests; Silts; Soil stabilisation

Indexed keywords

COMPACTED MIXTURES; DRY UNIT WEIGHT; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; KEY PARAMETERS; LABORATORY TEST; POWER FUNCTIONS; SPLITTING TENSILE TESTS; UNCONFINED COMPRESSION TESTS; UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

COMPACTION; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; MIXTURES; SILT; SOIL MECHANICS; STABILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

LIME;

COMPACTION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; LIME; POROSITY; SILTY SOIL; SOIL STABILIZATION; SOIL TEST; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84871828910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geolett.12.00014     Document Type: Article

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