Discrete-element study of the swelling behaviour of Na-montmorillonite

Geotechnique

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 674-681

  Anandarajah, A ^a   Amarasinghe, P M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clays; Discrete element modelling; Expansive soils; Mineralogy; Numerical modelling; Pore pressures

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SWELLING; EXPANSIVE SOILS; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT RELATIONS; INTERPARTICLE FORCE; NA-MONTMORILLONITE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SWELLING BEHAVIOUR; SWELLING PRESSURES;

CLAY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PORE PRESSURE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

SWELLING;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISPLACEMENT; EXPANSIVE SOIL; MONTMORILLONITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE PRESSURE; SOIL MECHANICS; SWELLING; VOID RATIO;

EID: 84877878001     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.12.P.012     Document Type: Article

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